Revellers 'covered in blood' as pre-Christmas party leads to brawl

Revellers were reportedly left 'covered in blood' after a pre-Christmas party descended into violence.

There were reports of 'multiple people covered in blood' in the early hours of this morning in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.

Police were seen blocking off Stafford Street at about 4am as one person told local newspaper StokeonTrentLive it had been 'kicking off' in the early hours.

The reader told the paper: 'Yet again another weekend of a high police presence on Stafford Street where it was kicking off.

'Multiple people covered in blood. There were six police cars and one riot van and Stafford Street was closed at both ends for about 20 minutes.'

Staffordshire Police was contacted for comment.

It comes as a huge brawl broke out outside a nightclub in the city involving 20 clubbers last week, in which people were punched, headbutted and stamped on.

Officers arrested two people, a man and a woman from 20, from Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme respectively.

The man was arrested on suspicion of common assault and displaying threatening and/or abusive behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress while the woman was detained on suspicion of assault by beating.

He was interviewed by officers and released on conditional bail while the woman was given an adult restorative disposal.

Police have since said they are keen to speak to anyone with any information about this.

A police spokesperson said: 'We’re keen to speak to anyone with any information that can help with our investigation, particularly those who were in the area at the time. Call 101, quoting incident 118 of 7 December, or use Live Chat on our website.

'To report anonymously, call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.'