POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was knocked out during a brawl at the Bullnose Morris pub in Blackbird Leys.

The fight is thought to have begun at about 1.30am on New Year's Day and took place inside the pub and in the car park.

Eyewitness Amber Williams, 30, from Field Avenue, said: "We were outside and it all came out of nowhere.

"Glasses were being thrown and people were being stamped on. All the girls were crying. It was just really mayhem. It was bad.

"It was just a big mess, all the girls were just screaming. There was lots of bodies fighting.

"We just left because it was too scary. I went back up there New Year's Day and there was glass everywhere."

One 24-year-old man, from Knights Road, who had been celebrating New Year's Eve in the pub and asked not to be named, said: "I got knocked unconscious.

"Someone had hit me from my blindside, but I do not remember too much. When my mum came down to get me I was in the back of the police car recovering.

"I have got a lump on the top of my head and a stiff jaw."

Thames Valley Police spokesman Toby Shergold said: "Officers were dispatched to the scene. They found a man with a head injury.

"Another man was arrested on suspicion of assault.

"Officers did not regard it as a serious incident as although there were a large number of people in the car park most of them were standing around, watching what was going on."

A 47-year-old man has subsequently been released on police bail until January 26.

The landlady of the Bullnose Morris declined to comment.