AN engineer sentenced for his part in a late-night brawl has had his 12-month pub ban overturned this week.

Calum Dunlop was one of three men who admitted violent disorder over the attack on two brothers in Hampton Dene, Hereford, in August 2013.

One of Dunlop’s accomplices was “playing chicken” in the road when he “clipped a taxi’s wing mirror”, Mr Justice Supperstone told London’s Appeal Court.

When brothers Benjamin and Daniel James emerged from the cab they were attacked, said the judge.

“There was considerable unprovoked aggression”, he told the court, adding that Dunlop “joined in”.

Benjamin James suffered a cut lip in the clash, and Daniel James was left with a shattered jaw.

Dunlop, 25, of Poplar Road, Clehonger, was sentenced at Hereford Crown Court in January, receiving a 12-month suspended jail term, plus a 200-hour unpaid work order. On top of that the graduate was hit with a year-long ban on him entering licensed premises.

The judge who sentenced the trio had warned about the hazards of drinking too heavily and Dunlop had admitted binge-drinking “on occasions”. But his lawyers challenged the ban, claiming it was too harsh.

Mr Justice Supperstone noted Dunlop’s admission of “behaving inappropriately”.

“We don’t consider that this order was proportionate given the sentence as a whole,” the judge concluded, quashing the pub ban.