Gang member beaten
!PA Wellington ' A gang' ' member was bludgeoned to the ground •unconscious, then kicked apt. beaten, during a brawl in a •central Wellington maL (yesterday, onlookers said. ' About 20 youths from the rival Black Power and SMofigrel Mob gangs were in. Solved. Shoppers fled as the fighi 'Mrs Mary Buick-Constable saidr- “We were selling raffle tickets when all these gang people started gathering. “Then they were fighting {They had chains and bolts . £iid 'one of them picked up s jrubbish tin and used that.” :-?Mrs Buick-Constable said •'fane of the youths was (Knocked to the ground and fathers gathered round him. ■Sticking. Some had taker ! their boots off and usee ithem to hit him. •"<Fhe police, alerted by . a of 111 calls, rounder fkio' fleeing members of both Six Mongrel Mob ant h’thrde Black Power members ’‘•'■were arrested and chargee Avith- disorderly behaviour. . !%Uhe gang > member was taken to hospital and was i.Sater said to be in a satisfacjkpry condition. He had suf- ; lergd bruises and cuts.
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Press, 26 September 1980, Page 4
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