Unholy brawl erupts during Mass

A PRIEST yesterday described how he feared parishioners’ lives were in danger when a fight broke out in his church during midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.

Unholy brawl erupts during Mass

Heavy chairs were thrown down an aisle at St Edmund’s Church in Southampton during the brawl in the middle of the service, said Monsignor Vincent Harvey.

The priest managed to continue the Mass after police arrived to arrest those involved.

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