Police appeal for help to find men in brutal street fight

Gareth Tate, 37, and an unidentified man began brawling in a drunken scrap.

After having a bottle smashed over his head, Tate holds his opponent while another brawler suddenly kicks him in the head.

The video was released by West Yorkshire Police in a bid to trace two other men involved, after Tate was handed a six-month suspended sentence and ordered to carry out 240 hours' unpaid work at Leeds Crown Court.

Tate, who handed himself into police after the fight in Osmondthorpe, Leeds, last October, had drunk eight pints.

He claimed he had been approached by a man asking for cigarettes and, after refusing, was called "four eyes".

The video shows the two men arguing as a woman attempts to calm them. Suddenly the two begin to grapple and the unidentified man repeatedly strikes Tate over the head with a bottle, later smashing it over his head as they wrestle on the floor.

Tate then holds his opponent down and another man kicks him. Tate, of Osmondthorpe Lane, who admitted affray, told Judge Rodney Grant: "I wish I had just turned and gone."

The judge admitted he could not be sure Tate held the man down so that he could be kicked, but added: "What I find to be proved was your aggression that evening and your willingness to fight."

Call Stainbeck CID on 0845 6060606 with information.