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A ‘COWBOY movie’ bar brawler has been jailed for more than two years. Anthony Ballard, 30, was on bail for an earlier attack in Chippenham when he was involved in the 20-man pub brawl at the Old Lane bar, Pewsham, in July 2019. Jailing the Chippenham man for 27 months at Swindon Crown Court yesterday, Judge Peter Crabtree said: “One passing witness who was clearly frightened described it as being like one of the bar brawls in a cowboys movie.” He added: “You played a leading role in the affray, in my view, emerging to knock down one victim certainly then repeatedly using violence against him in circumstances that fanned the flames of the affray as well as punching others.”
A ‘COWBOY movie’ bar brawler has been jailed for more than two years. Anthony Ballard, 30, was on bail for an earlier attack in Chippenham when he was involved in the 20-man pub brawl at the Old Lane bar, Pewsham, in July 2019. Jailing the Chippenham man for 27 months at Swindon Crown Court yesterday, Judge Peter Crabtree said: “One passing witness who was clearly frightened described it as being like one of the bar brawls in a cowboys movie.” He added: “You played a leading role in the affray, in my view, emerging to knock down one victim certainly then repeatedly using violence against him in circumstances that fanned the flames of the affray as well as punching others.”