Police decide not to charge Wasps players

Ice hockey

The Durham Wasps players, Ross Lambert and Jonathan Weaver, will not be charged with any offence by Northumbria Police.

The pair were arrested on 9 March after police came on to the ice at Sunderland's Crowtree Leisure Centre when the play-off match against Humberside Hawks developed into a mass brawl. The game was abandoned after just 58 seconds when trouble flared after Bruce Bell, of the Hawks, received facial and spinal injuries during an incident in the pre-match warm-up.

Four other Humberside players were also arrested on the night but were released without charge.