TWO brothers have admitted their part in a mass brawl during a funeral at a Hampshire cemetery.

Mourners had been paying their last respects to 79-year-old Amaline Barney at the Hoe Road cemetery in Bishop's Waltham when a gang of men piled out of their cars and stormed into the burial ground.

After a dispute punches soon started to fly, as shocked funeral-goers, undertakers and the church reverend looked on in disbelief.

Two men were left injured in the ensuing violence.

The attackers ran from the scene, before speeding off in their cars.

At Portsmouth Crown Court yesterday Royston Barney-Smith, 23, and Ruben Barney-Smith, 27, were due in the dock for the first day of their trial, which was expected to take two weeks.

But after allowing a delay for negotiations between their defence counsel and prosecutors, Judge Gareth Cowling heard them change their pleas.

Although the pair both denied charges of violent disorder, they pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of affray.

Both also admitted charges of intimidation, relating to a phone call made to a witness two days after the fight.

Judge Cowling ordered pre-sentence reports to be compiled on both men, before they appear back before the court on October 12.

He warned them that they could face jail.

Royston Barney-Smith, of Grange Road, Hedge End, had his bail, for which he previously paid a £2,000 surety, extended on the condition he lives at that address, and does not contact four witnesses to the incident.

Ruben Barney-Smith, of Ascot, Berkshire, was also granted bail, on the condition that he does not attempt to contact the same four witnesses.