Wedding guests hurt in wild wedding reception brawl

Six guests have been taken to hospital and a restaurant has been trashed in a wild wedding reception brawl. The free-for-all broke out during a banquet at a chinese restaurant in Brisbane, but police can't take action because no one involved is talking.

One of the guests was thrown on to a table in the melee, while others suffered cuts and bruises. Bllodstains were left on the restaurant carpet. The cause of the fight remains a mystery and even the restaurant owner is staying silent.

Police said that, in the absence of a formal complaint or the use of weapons, they were left hamstrung in their ability to investigate the ruckus or lay charges. Patrick Ching, who manages The Manor Chinese Restaurant at Eight Mile Plains on the city's southside, said he had no intention of taking the matter any further. "They paid their bill," he said.

Senior-Sergeant Matt Saunders said there had clearly been a fight. "It was quite obvious one man had been thrown on to the table with several others on top of him, but no one – not even the restaurant manager – would talk about it," he said. "It was just one big wall of silence."

The restaurant was left with a hole in the wall, broken glass on the floor and bloodstains on the carpet following the reception for more than 50 people. Article here.