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From the
http://www.dailymail.co.uk. By Euan McLelland. 8 July 2015.
Residents on an affluent London street are left terrified as 60
travellers brawl outside their homes and use the road as a toilet after
a drunken wake.
Brawling travellers clambered on car roofs and urinated in an
affluent London street after a funeral wake descended into drunken
chaos.
Sixty mourners were involved in what one witness described as a 'huge
fist fight', which required an estimated 100 police officers to control.
Residents in Shooter's Hill, south east London, told of their shock
after seeing a 'mountain of police' trying to control the violence
outside the "Red Lion" pub.
Three men were arrested following the brawl, one of whom attended a
south London hospital where he was treated for a head injury.
Residents in Shooter's Hill, south east London, told of their shock
after seeing a 'mountain of police' trying to control the violence
outside the Red Lion pub.
Witnesses say a large group of travellers involved in the fighting were
attending a wake and had been swigging from beer cans in the street.
Maddie Mansfield, 19, said: 'It was very, very noisy. There was a huge
fist fight involving loads of people, definitely 60-plus at one point.'
A neighbour, who asked not to be named and whose house and van were
damaged during the violence, said: 'People were petrified. I have never
seen anything like it.
'They were standing on the roof of my neighbour's car. He's had
thousands of pounds worth of damage done.
'They were urinating in the street and doing number twos as well. I was
hosing them down from my garden the next day.'
Amanda Barry, also of Shooters Hill, said her husband had earlier
overheard travellers, who were sat outside the "Red Lion" pub on July 2,
say they were celebrating a wake.
She said: 'It started to get quite noisy outside at about nine o'clock.
Witnesses say a large group of travellers involved in the fighting
were attending a wake and had been swigging from beer cans in the
street.
'The neighbours and I came out to see what was going on and they were
everywhere.'
Mrs Barry said nearby restaurant The Jasmine was forced to close early
at around 6pm after a group of travellers became angry when they were
refused use of the toilet.
The 37-year-old mum-of-four added: 'They began to urinate in the street
outside the restaurant and glasses were being thrown into the restaurant
garden.'
Mrs Barry said around 30 to 40 travellers' caravans arrived on the field
opposite her house over the weekend but left on Monday morning after
Greenwich Council intervened.
The caravans have since been photographed on Plumstead Common.
Simon McDonagh, 33, a Tottenham car salesman and David Ward, 38,
unemployed from Enfield, have both been charged with affray and appeared
in custody at court on July 4.
A third man, who was arrested, has been released without charge.
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