A woman and her two brothers have been found guilty of starting a huge street brawl in Kingston town centre where men stopped traffic as they lashed out at each other with belts and sticks.
Natalia Connelly, 35, and her brothers Craig Jones, 25, and Scott Mills-Jones, 27, were found guilty of one count of affray at Kingston Crown Court along with their friend Jason Mayo, 29.
Jerome Crooks, 23, of Thornton Heath, was cleared by the jury.
The fight broke out over a 'sexual comment' outside the Kings Tun Wetherspoons pub in Clarence Street on April 15, spilling into the road and stopping traffic.
CCTV footage showed the Jones brothers and Mayo lashing out at Mr Crooks with poles and sticks in their hands in front of rush-hour traffic.
The man on the left with the stick was never identified by police
Connelly can also be seen smiling and kissing a bleeding Mayo as they briskly walked away up Richmond Road after police cars with flashing lights arrived to start arresting people.
The pair appeared to be unaware a council CCTV camera was trained on them the whole time following them along the way and guiding police toward them.
Connely briefly turned back and raised a thumb and a smile to someone across the road.
Mayo could be seen ducking behind a car as he walked down a side street off Richmond Road. A police van pulled alongside and arrested him moments later.
Connelly, her brothers and Mayo said they got involved in the dispute after a group of men, including Jerome Crooks, 23, allegedly made a lewd comment to Connelly.
Connelly told the court she laughed at the original comment but the situation quickly escalated after she was hit with a belt while trying to break up the fight between her brother Scott and the three other men.
VIDEO: 'Sexual comment sparked' Kingston town centre stick and belt fight
She said during the trial: "I felt something like a belt hit my back when I was trying to break up the fight. I couldn’t tell who hit me.
"My brother Scott then took my belt without my consent."
Connelly admitted she had been hysterical during the fight but denied encouraging the violence.
She told the court: "I was just screaming out at them to stop throughout the entire thing.
"I could not control them. How do you control a load of boys?
"I was laughing afterwards because I was trying to defuse the situation."
Jones and Mills-Jones, both of Chelsea Close, Hampton Hill, will be sentenced tomorrow and Mayo, of Fielding Avenue, Twickenham, on January 15.
Connelly who lives in East Road, Kingston, will find out her sentence at a later date.
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