More trouble as police needed to control Carnage pub crawl

Hundreds of students braved sub-zero temperatures in Sheffield to take part in the Carnage event. A similar pub crawl organised by the same firm was also taking part in Leeds.

Revellers in Sheffield met at the Revolution bar, off West Street, and immediately began drinking. Some were clearly drunk on arrival.

All participants were required to wear a T-shirt – sold by organisers Carnage UK for 10 – and many were also dressed as cops and robbers, the fancy dress theme for the night.

Ironically by 8.55pm – less than two hours into the seven hour drinking binge – young people were clashing with real police as they moved to the second bar, Players.

As hundreds of people lined up outside one girl collapsed and was picked up by officers and put in a police van.

An ambulance was called after she vomited on the seat of the police vehicle.

Minutes later, about 9pm, a tall heavy-set youth attempted to stop traffic and trams in West Street. When a policewoman tried to stop him he began to fight her. Four other officers then had to wrestle him to the ground where he was arrested.

He was quickly taken away to jeers from the waiting queue.

Students were expected to continue to three other bars – Walkabout, Crystal and the Ruby Lounge, before heading to a final nightclub, Embrace.

Carnage hit the headlines late last year after Sheffield Hallam University student Philip Laing, 19, was photographed urinating on a memorial.