Bar owner's son 'jumps on car' during chaotic row between family and urban explorers

A violent row has erupted between a group of alleged urban explorers and a family who own an abandoned bar as chaotic scenes filmed outside the venue saw bottles being smashed and a man jumping on a car.

The confrontation took place outside Colosseum in Huddersfield, which owner Ian Snowball wants to develop the abandoned building into ‘Europe’s biggest bar.

Video footage appeared to show Mr Snowball’s son Alex Snowball jumping on a car outside the venue. Alex’s brother Adam says the pair of them were with their dad reviewing CCTV footage when they saw a group pull up in a car and allegedly try to get into Colosseum through a window.

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"When we got there, we caught a man in a red shirt and a child inside the property and they promptly got out and ran to two larger males,” Adam told YorkshireLive. “We informed them that they were trespassing on our property and that the police had been called.

"We noticed that the car ignition was running so we dropped a couple of bins over to prevent them from fleeing the scene. What followed was chaotic."

Adam claims his dad was “kicked over into a pile of broken glass” and says someone “tried to assault his brother”. He then claims a car was "accelerated towards them” by allegedly driving onto a footpath.

He said: “Alex was between the car and me, unable to move to the left, right, or backwards due to a wall, the concrete bollards and the bins so was unable to get out of the way of the car and was only able to move towards the car or get run over.

"Knowing he couldn't get out of the way of the accelerating car he made the only decision that wouldn't result in being run over by the car - he