Two men from Bargoed have admitted charges of violent disorder after trouble flared up in Cardiff City centre when a protest march passed people drinking.
On July 26 last year an estimated 1,500 people took part in the march opposed to Israel’s military action in Gaza.
As they passed drinkers in Cardiff’s Mill Lane, bar stools, tables and glasses were thrown.
Nine defendants appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday March 24 to enter pleas to charges in connection with the incident.
Nicholas Carter, 31, of St Mary Street, Bargoed, John James Williams, 32 who lives in Police Houses, Cardiff Road, Bargoed, and Ahsan Malik, 56, of Craig y Darren, Aberdare, all admitted charges of violent disorder.
The fourth guilty plea came from Daniel Smout, 25, of Cherry Tree Drive, Shropshire who denied violent disorder but admitted a charge of affray.
Pleas of not guilty to violent disorder were entered by Daniel Woods, 22, of Farm Close, Abertridwr, Jaber Hossin, 20, of Corporation Road, Cardiff, Barry Murphy, 33, Poplar Road, Pontypridd and Yussef Asad, 28, of no fixed address.
The trio will now go on trial at Cardiff Crown Court on June 29. Smout, Carter, Malik and Williams were told they would be sentenced at the end of that trial.
Grant Ashcroft, 23, of Llewellyn Street, Gilfach, was not asked to enter a plea to any charge and is to make a separate court appearance, alone, on May 8.