TWO friends who have served jail terms over a wine bar affray which left a man unconscious, had their convictions overturned yesterday.
Neil Flounders, 32, of Skylark Close, Hartlepool, and John Alton, 31, of Roe End, Kingsbury, North London, were jailed for nine months in August last year, after being found guilty at Teesside Crown Court, of affray, in Hartlepool, on June 17, 2000.
London's Criminal Appeal Court found the verdicts were unsafe due to omissions in the trial judge's summing up.
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