The Carnage goes on: Now Liverpool city centre is the scene of drunken bad behaviour as hundreds of students take part in controversial pub crawl
- - Circus-themed student event last night attracts hordes of teenagers
- - Cheap alcohol on offer - with £1 shots and bottles of wine for just £5
- - Carnage has been dubbed Britain's most debauched student event
By MARK DUELL
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Hundreds of students wreaked havoc in Liverpool last night at the latest Carnage pub crawl.
The circus-themed event attracted hordes of teenagers who enjoyed drinking cheap alcohol - with £1 shots and bottles of wine on sale for just £5 - before spilling out into the city’s streets.
Dubbed Britain's most debauched student event, the night lived up to its name as young women clung onto the remains of their dignity and groups of rowdy men clowned around in the street.
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Having fun: The circus-themed event attracted hordes of teenagers who enjoyed drinking cheap alcohol - with £1 shots and bottles of wine on sale for just £5 - before spilling out into the city’s streets
Circus theme: The women braved the chilly weather, wearing tiny shorts and revealing ripped T-shirts, with their underwear on display. Groups of men stumbled along the streets, shouting and singing
Getting close: Many amorous young couples were getting close during the Carnage event in Liverpool last night
Held back: Police and paramedics kept a close eye on the chaotic event - which claims to give students 'the best night of their lives' - with witnesses seeing fights breaking out between some of the partygoers
Student life: Three young women enjoy their night out during the Carnage event in Liverpool city centre
Big night out: A young woman is picked up by a man, while another reveller leans against a wall for support
The women braved the chilly weather, wearing tiny shorts and revealing ripped T-shirts, with their underwear on display. Groups of men stumbled along the streets, shouting and singing.
Police and paramedics kept a close eye on the chaotic event - which claims to give students 'the best night of their lives' - with witnesses seeing fights breaking out between some of the partygoers.
Many frisky young couples were getting close, slinking off into secluded back alleys and sheltering in doorways in an attempt to get some privacy. Other revellers poured into takeaways to eat fast food.
One local shopkeeper said: ‘We can't complain really as Carnage does attract a lot of people. They can cause a lot of noise, but it brings in good business for us. And we never have too much trouble.'
Going, going, gone: This young woman fell onto the pavement during Carnage last night in Liverpool city centre
Group: Many frisky young couples were getting close, slinking off into secluded back alleys and sheltering in doorways in an attempt to
get some privacy. Other revellers poured into takeaways to eat fast food
Helping hand: A man carries a woman over his shoulder as onlookers watch during Carnage in Liverpool last night
Reply: Carnage's founder says the events are 'heavily focused on group identity, social and ethical cohesion'
Pub crawl: Carnage UK events, which are organised by Varsity Leisure Group, have come under fire in the past for promoting excessive drinking as students are offered cheap alcohol, and led from bar to bar
Green light: A young man and woman get close away from the rest of the action during Carnage in Liverpool
Party time: A young woman enjoys her night out in Liverpool, while a man and woman hug each other
Aid: A group of students try to help a young woman who appears to have fallen onto the pavement
Oh dear: This unfortunate woman ended up on the street during Carnage last night in Liverpool city centre
Popular: A local shopkeeper said he could not complain about the event as it 'does attract a lot of people'
Shopping trolley: The huge student night - part of a UK chain of events - hit Liverpool city centre last night
But one angry taxi driver disagreed, saying: ‘The event causes a lot of problems. Students are offered cheap alcohol and when it comes to the end of the night, most of them are in a bad way.
‘Some of these students are just so young. At the end of the night, I see them lying in the street, being sick, or having to be carried home - and it's just not right.’
Carnage UK events, which are organised by Varsity Leisure Group, have come under fire in the past for promoting excessive drinking - with students are offered cheap alcohol, and led from bar to bar.
But founder Paul Bahia, a Birmingham University graduate, has previously denied this, insisting the events are 'heavily focused on group identity, social and ethical cohesion and fancy dress themes'
DESECRATING WAR MEMORIALS AND PUNCHING ANXIOUS RESIDENTS
Carnage UK is a national student brand traded by Varsity Leisure Group. There is no publicly-listed telephone entry for Varsity, although company records state that it is based in Rugby, Warwickshire.
Shamed: In 2009, student Philip Laing desecrated a poppy wreath in Sheffield during a Carnage event
The event’s founder is 33-year-old entrepreneur Paul Bahia, a Birmingham University graduate who is the son of an insurance executive father and midwife mother.
Mr Bahia, whose real name is Inderpaul Sandeep Singh Bahia, launched Carnage in 2007. It boasts that students will enjoy 'probably the best night of your life', but the events have courted plenty of controversy.
In 2009, student Philip Laing, 19, desecrated a poppy wreath in Sheffield during a Carnage event and was later ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service and pay £185 after admitting outraging public decency.
Following a Carnage event the same year, police in Exeter, Devon, said they were looking into the possibility of charging the organisers for the cost of the extra police needed to be drafted in to man the streets.
In 2010, a court heard how Carnage pub crawl operator Ryan Hilton, 23, punched unconscious a 61-year-old resident who voiced concerns about noise levels at an events in Bangor, North Wales.
The brand - sponsored by men's magazines Loaded, Nuts and Zoo - says it has been voted the 'UK's number one student event'.
Tickets for the events cost between £8 and £10 - which gets students a branded T-shirt, giving them entry to a series of bars and pubs.
More Carnage nights are planned over the next fortnight for Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Eastbourne, Hanley, Hull, Newcastle, Southampton and Swansea.
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