Manchester robust man Dougie Joyce despatched a cheeky video from his cell, laughing off rumours he was crushed up in jail.
Rumours have been flying that 35 12 months previous Joyce, who’s locked up for attacking an previous man in a pub, received a beating within the jail showers and wanted a watch op. But Joyce, an enormous title in Manchester’s Traveller scene, made a video in his cell.
He’s all smiles and laughs, asking: “Do I look like a guy who’s on the hospital wing or been done in? ” He ends the video saying he is ‘recent as a daisy’ and offers a cheeky wink to the digicam, enjoyable on his jail mattress, reviews the Manchester Evening News.
Even although mobiles are a no-go in jail, it appears they’re nonetheless getting used. Back in November, Joyce received 19 months in jail for the nasty assault. The cops known as him ‘aggressive and violent’, saying he wished to scare and harm a 78 12 months previous man.
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Joyce, wearing a black cap and a flowery tracksuit prime, adopted the sufferer in a pub on Thomas Street and began yelling and pointing at him. Then he hit him, sending him flying off his chair. He continued to tower over the aged man, waving his arms about in a threatening method. As quickly because the older man received up, Douglas Joyce swung a punch at his face, sending him flying backwards over the desk and chairs.
Dougie Joyce, the oldest of seven brothers and 4 sisters, began boxing when he was simply six years previous. He was a profitable younger and novice boxer, and it is stated that he even turned down an element in Channel 4’s My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding to develop into ‘the following Tyson Fury’.
In The Joyce Family Documentary on Amazon, which provides viewers a glimpse into the lifetime of the travelling group, Joyce shared how he was introduced as much as stand his floor. “The way I’ve been taught, all my life, is you fight fire with fire,” he defined. “You learn how to defend yourself and that’s it.”
“I had it when I was young,” he added. “We were always on the move. Every time you went in a school you were the odd one out. No-one ever liked a traveller. I was a ‘little g****’. Every day I went in there I had a fight. I went through the thick of it. Not only myself, every traveller in the country.”
In 2012, he was punished for his function in a road battle involving his youthful brother Johnny and their cousin, actuality TV star Paddy Doherty. This was the height of a household feud that began with a scuffle at a household funeral.
The brawl between Johnny Joyce and the then 52 12 months previous Celebrity Big Brother star brought about a site visitors jam after it moved from the automotive park of a PC World in Ardwick onto a essential highway. During the chaos, a part of Doherty’s ear was bitten off by Johnny Joyce.
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Doherty, bloodied and severely injured, collapsed on a grass verge after a lady passer-by pleaded with Johnny and Dougie, who have been filming the battle, to ‘depart him alone’, Manchester Crown Court was informed. Doherty confessed to affray and obtained a suspended sentence.
Johnny Joyce additionally admitted to the identical cost and was sentenced to fifteen months in jail. Dougie Joyce, then 23, averted jail after confessing to a public order offence. He implicated himself by exhibiting police the video he had taken of the battle, the place he will be heard egging on his brother.
Judge Steiger, whereas ordering Dougie Joyce to finish 150 hours of unpaid work as a part of a 12-month group order, described the feud as ‘revolting’ and added: “I trust that you are older and wise enough to realise that it should stop.”
Four years later, Joyce, then residing in Boothstown, Salford, discovered himself in bother once more after taking part in a ‘Wild West type’ brawl at a pub in Gorton. Manchester Crown Court was knowledgeable that he supported his brother Johnny throughout an early morning confrontation with one other household on the Vulcan Inn.
The courtroom heard that Dougie Joyce was searching for a battle when he entered the crowded pub together with his brother. Chairs have been thrown as they strutted in, and elder brother Dougie was seen deflecting a bar stool together with his hand.
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His restricted involvement within the brawl – primarily working round together with his hood up as chairs have been thrown – led to a cost of threatening behaviour, which he admitted to. The essential incident that night time was an assault on a person earlier than the chaos contained in the venue. This man by no means reported to the police however was left bleeding after being ambushed within the smoking space.
There have been 16 calls to 999 following the incident, with reviews of a number of stabbings on the scene. Dougie Joyce was not linked to any of the stabbings, and a person seen on the scene with a weapon in his hand could not be traced.
In the Joyce Family Documentary, Joyce additionally talks about how he was jailed for his half in a battle outdoors the previous Birdcage nightclub in Manchester metropolis centre. Joyce met his spouse Holly, a former Jet2 air hostess, on Instagram in 2019. They received married in a lavish ceremony on the Gorton Monastery in July final 12 months.
The extravagant marriage ceremony price over £60,000, included 4 Rolls Royces, a £12,000 gown and limitless champagne. Holly, a mum-of-two from Salford, described their love story as a ‘whirlwind that is become a fairytale’. Joyce has began a number of companies, together with a customized furnishings vary, activewear corporations and his personal whiskey model, Joyce’s Irish Whiskey. He can also be the founder and president of boxing promoters 3D Fight Club.
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson stated: “We do not tolerate mobile phones in prison and those found with them face extra time behind bars. We are also introducing new laws to ensure that content filmed inside prison is removed from social media platforms more quickly.”