A JUDGE told three young men who were involved in an alcohol-fuelled fight outside a kebab house that they have six months to prove they are grown ups.

Robbie Mark Chipchase, William Christopher Peart and Jake Brian Clarke were warned that they will be sent to prison if they commit any offence before they are due back in court in September.

Yesterday, Judge Stephen Climie decided to defer sentence in the Bournemouth Crown Court case, which concerned a fight outside Wimborne Kebab House in Eastbrook Row at 1.15am on November 2, 2019.

Chipchase, 19 and of Lynwood Drive, Merley, and Peart, 20 and of Trinidad Crescent, Poole, previously admitted unlawfully and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on the same man.

Clarke, 20 and of Hardy Crescent, Wimborne, admitted assaulting another man occasioning him actual bodily harm. He had also pleaded guilty to two counts of drug driving, failing to stop for an officer, driving without a licence and driving without insurance in June last year.

Addressing the three defendants, Judge Climie said: “I am not very impressed with what I have seen on the footage but it sounds as though neither are you.

“All three of you now accept that fuelling up with alcohol and then turning to violence is something that should be avoided if at all possible.”

Prosecuting, Rob Griffiths said the three men where outside the kebab shop in the early hours when the fight broke out.

The prosecutor said it was a “little difficult” to know how the incident started due to differing witness accounts.

Mr Griffiths said Peart attacked the victim, knocking him to the ground before Chipchase got involved “for no obvious reason”.

Footage played in court showed Peart throwing punches and Chipchase stamping at something with his feet.

The injured man, who was out celebrating his birthday, suffered facial trauma, including a fractured nose.

Less than a minute later, Clarke punched another man in the face, causing facial injuries.

Robert Grey, representing Chipchase, said his client had no previous convictions and “was not the instigator” of the fight. Chipchase’s mother told the court her son had not drunk alcohol since the incident, adding: “He knows he has made a massive mistake”.

Peart, who had a previous conviction for violence, had “turned himself around” and was completely off any kind of drugs, said his counsel Rose Burns.

Mitigating for Clarke, barrister Lucy Conroy said her client described the behaviour he displayed in his offences as “the behaviour of a child”.

Judge Climie said: “I am going to give you six months to prove to me that you are grown ups.”

The judge said if any of the defendants committed offences in the next six months “you are going to prison, full stop”.

If they do not reoffend and show they have made efforts to save money for compensation and court costs, they will avoid going to prison.

“It’s a simple equation,” added the judge.