Street marshall receives suspended sentence for threatening behavour

A street marshal who punched a nightclubber and knocked him out has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Ajay Mahajan was a uniformed security official helping police control late-night disorder in Loughborough town centre when he and a colleague became involved in a confrontation with two men who had been thrown out of a nightclub.

The 21-year-old, from Holden Street, Leicester, appeared before Loughborough Magistrates this week for sentencing after being found guilty of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour following a trial last month.

The confrontation happened in October, in High Street, Loughborough. Two men were evicted from the Wild nightclub and Mahajan and colleagues were called to try to move them out of the town centre. Weedon said there was a dispute and Mahajan punched one on the men in the face.

He said: "Mr Mahajan states it was in anticipation of him being hit, but there was no raised fist (from the defendant.)"

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