Huge brawls, bitter words and Paul Massey: The feud between Paddy Doherty and Johnny and Dougie Joyce

In a YouTube video uploaded earlier this month reality TV star Paddy Doherty appears in an upbeat mood. "Hey, good day for me today," he tells viewers.

The reason for his high spirits, Doherty goes on to explain, is that he's just learnt his long-time rival Dougie Joyce, 35, had been jailed for an appalling attack on a pensioner more than 40 years his age in a Northern Quarter pub.

"He's an old widow man, just buried his wife," says Doherty of the victim. "Shame on you.

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"I wouldn't wish no-one in jail, but when someone's sick, disgusted, hitting an old, old man, a great great grandfather, then you deserve it. There are good people among Joyces, but you tarnished the name."

It was the latest shot across the bows in a long-running and bloody feud between Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Doherty and bare knuckle boxer Dougie Joyce, members of two of Greater Manchester's most well-known travelling families. The bad blood began following a dispute between the two clans at a wake in August 2010.

A fortnight later it exploded in brutal fashion when, following a night out drinking, Joyce's younger brother Johnny, then 19, fractured Doherty's jaw in two places after a fight on a travellers' site in Salford. Johnny Joyce was charged with GBH and put on trial at Minshull Street Crown Court.

"I remember standing up, searching my pockets for my phone, then lights out," Mr Doherty told the jury." I hit the ground and thought I was dreaming. I remember, 'Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack' and 'You’re dead now, you b******'. I never saw it coming."

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