THIS is the shocking moment a British tourist brawled with locals at a holiday hotspot after seeing the group abuse a woman and a baby.
Liam Stacey, 29, confronted the group, before Roderick Sciortino slapped him across the face and sent him stumbling into his toddler.
The three men were seen brawling as another lay facedown on the ground behind them
The brawl continued until Stacey walked away
Roderick Sciortino remained face down on the ground until the fight ended
Stacey hit back, knocking Sciortino to the ground.
In shocking footage filmed by another hotel patron, the men are heard yelling and swearing aggressively at each other before further punches start being thrown.
Two men – Sciortino’s brothers Horace and Nick – stepped in to fight Stacey, as Sciortino was left laying face down behind the brawling men.
People were heard screaming and yelling around the fight as other men tried to step in and separate the trio.
The brawl continued to spiral out of control, before Stacey finally walked away.
In the aftermath, one of the brothers bent down in an attempt to help Sciortino, while the other is further enraged and begins throwing around poolside chairs.
Sciortino was taken to hospital where he died from a brain aneurysm five days after the fight.
Following the death, Stacey was accused of causing grievous bodily harm.
He denied all the charges.
A Maltese heard a medical examiner say the death was not caused by Stacey’s blow, describing it instead as a “pathological bleed” that struck at the wrong time.
After the medical revelations were heard, Sciortino’s brothers were once again the source of disruption.
The pair began threatening and the magistrate, interrupting the court proceeding.
Horace and Nick were both found guilty, given suspended sentences and fined £6526 (€7500) each.
Alexia Meilak, Sciortino’s partner, told the court he’d had a history of issues.
“Roderick was unwell,” she said.
“He used to say he had a brain tumour.”
The men were yelling and swearing aggressively at each other
One of the brothers tried to help Sciortino up from the ground
At the time of the hearing, he was being kept alive by machines in the intensive care unit.
During the trial, Tonya Cook – a witness and senior British officer – told the court on the morning of the brawl, a group of seven to eight Maltese men had arrived at the and began drinking heavily.
According to Cook, the men had a baby with them and were spilling their drinks and even hanging the child upside down.
Cook told the court the men had begun taking personal items from other guests’ sunbeds, in order to claim the lounges they wanted.
She later said she heard screaming coming from the pool and saw one man in red shorts shouting at a woman and pulling her hair.
Cook also said the water had been full of the woman’s hair and that it began to have a strange colour.
Cook said hotel staff had refused to intervene, despite multiple guests asking.
She told the court a crowd had formed around a Maltese man – now known to be Sciortino – on the ground, who was “turning blue”.
One of Cook’s friends – an emergency doctor – was performing mouth-to-mouth on the man, in an attempt to resuscitate him.
She saw the man in red shorts, one of Sciortino’s brothers, running towards the exit, hitting people in his attempt to escape.
The brother in red shorts was seen throwing pool chairs before attempting to flee the hotel
When Cook asked hotel staff to lock the doors, they refused as the man was a paying guest.
She took matters into her own hands, holding the man down until police arrived.
He was taken into custody but later released after he began to cry.
Cook told the court of her interaction with Stacey’s partner, Natasha Jerrard, who she said was “absolutely distraught”.
Cook helped Jerrard to her room, before Stacey confessed to pushing a man who had punched him.
Jerrard also told the court that one of the men had slapped Stacey, causing him to fall onto their two-year-old daughter.
She added her partner had punched the man, who then fell to the ground.
The British couple were on a family holiday with Stacey’s mother and her partner, Martin Wesley.
Wesley also appeared as a witness, telling the court the group of Maltese men had been “drinking loads”.
Stacey had told the group to be quiet after their behaviour began upsetting the children.
Following the ordeal, hospitality and leisure company the db Group condemned the violence and all inappropriate behaviour.
In a statement, the company said: “db Group is treating this matter with the utmost seriousness and has launched an internal “.
“db Group is fully cooperating with the relevant authorities to ensure transparency and accountability.
“In addition, we have also taken other pre-emptive actions such as strengthening of security measures and a of our admissions policy.”
The group said that if any staff shortcomings came to light “disciplinary action would be taken without hesitation”.
