Don’t spit on doormen
Pair took revenge on club's doormen (Albanian attackers)
TWO friends who took revenge on nightclub doormen after being thrown out have been banned from the premises and handed suspended jail sentences.
Besim Dobrushi, 23, and 21-year-old Dritan Canaj were ejected from the Soul Tree Club, in Cambridge city centre, late on November 19 after a fight broke out. But the friends, who were drunk, were intent on taking their anger out on the bouncers at closing time, the city's crown court was told.
Dobrushi - who punched a barman before being thrown out - and Canaj waited outside and, after getting into a row with doormen, took turns wielding a spanner at them.
During a melee as clubbers were leaving, two doormen received minor injuries, Sara Walker, for the prosecution, told the court.
Dobrushi, an Albanian who lives in High Street, Great Cambourne and works as a guard on a building site, and Canaj, a Kosovan of Harvey Goodwin Gardens, Cambridge, both admitted a charge of affray.
Passing sentence, Judge Anthony Bate said: "The injuries received were relatively superficial, but the most serious aspect of this was your willingness to arm yourselves at the scene with a spanner."
He imposed an exclusion order on both men, banning them from the club, and sentenced each to six months' imprisonment, suspended for two years, as well as 150 hours of unpaid community work and 18 months probation supervision.
Dobrushi, who was in breach of a previous four-month suspended sentence imposed by magistrates last year for an assault on a woman in the city's market square, was given an additional 90 hours' community work to carry out.
The suspension of the custodial element of the previous sentence was also extended to two years.