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This shocking street camera footage shows the moment two drunken louts hurled bottles at innocent bystanders in Liverpool city centre.

The three yobs went on the rampage on Dale Street after being turfed out of Garlands nightclub as morning broke on August 3 last year.

A bottle was indiscriminately launched into a crowd gathered outside Lemon and Lime takeaway, while another was thrown at close distance at a man who had dared to confront them.

The dramatic footage shows women intervening to attempt to quell the violence.

Jamie Byrne, 20, Hayden Daord and Luke Shaw, both 19, avoided being jailed at Liverpool Crown Court, despite a judge telling them they had “behaved disgracefully”. All three admitted affray.

The 6am CCTV footage shows the yobs showboating and gesticulating at the crowd before reaching into bins containing empty bottles.

Screenshots from the CCTV:

Bare-chested Daord can be seen hurling the projectile with force from across the road into the crowd of clubbers, many of whom were waiting for taxis home.

The bottle smashed against a man’s head, leaving him needing hospital treatment.

Byrne can be seen smashing a glass on the kerb, leaving the neck of the bottle in his hand. He then confronts a man on the other side of the road, before launching the missile.

The glass skimmed the top of his victim’s head before hitting the window of Lemon and Lime.

Doard is also seen aiming a kick at a man’s head - which missed – while Byrne uses a broken bottle to threaten and jab.

Liverpool Crown Court heard that the trouble spilled onto Dale Street after the men clashed with bouncers at Garlands, on Eberle Street.

Police converged on the scene and arrested the yobs as they fled down North John Street.

Daord, of Byrne Avenue, Rock Ferry, who had been handed a conditional discharge for possessing an offensive weapon just over a week before – claimed the bottle he threw was plastic, not glass.

Byrne, from Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, also admitted taking cocaine and being drunk.

Byrne admitted possession of an offensive weapon.

Shaw, of Bramhall Drive, Eastham, said he was drunk and had taken cocaine. He was not involved with any weapons, but “demonstrated violence”.

All were said in court to be ashamed at watching back their behaviour.

Recorder David Heaton, QC, spared the men detention, handing them each eight months in a young offenders’ institution, suspended for two years.

The judge said: “The ball is in your court as to your future behaviour and where you are going to be spending time.”