Man avoids jail over a vicious attack on a stranger at The Sporting Globe in Werribee

A man who pinned a stranger to the ground so his brother could bash him has told a court he “only joined in to try and stop” the vicious brawl at a Werribee sports bar.

Christopher Cook has avoided jail over a nasty brawl at The Sporting Globe in Werribee in 2016.

A Werribee man who pinned a stranger to the ground so his brother could beat him up says he “only joined in to try and stop” the brawl at a local sports bar.

Christopher Cook yesterday faced the Werribee Magistrates’ over the September 2016 attack at the Sporting Globe Bar & Grill at Pacific Werribee shopping centre where a man was left bloodied and with a broken nose.

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Cook’s brother — who has been jailed over the attack — was captured on CCTV footage dragging the victim by the hair, as well as punching and kicking him.

Footage also captured Cook punching the victim and pinning him to the ground while his brother continues the vicious assault.

The prosecutor told the court the victim was bleeding from the head and a “substantial amount of blood” was left on the floor.

Cook told the court he had been out drinking with his brother and some friends when the fight broke out and he “only joined in to try and stop it”.

But Magistrate John Bentley was not convinced.

“It sounds to me like you were putting punches in too and you were sitting on (the victim) to enable your brother to further inflict injury to this person,” he said.

“If you really wanted to stop the fight you would have just gone to security and said ‘hey, there’s trouble over here, my brother’s involved, let’s stop this fight’ but you didn’t.”

Cook said he had stopped drinking since the incident.

He was convicted and sentenced to a 15-month community corrections order and must complete 250 hours of unpaid work.