Two people arrested after armed men battered each other with traffic signs in Sutton High Street, have been released on bail pending further enquiries.

Police arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of GBH and having an offensive weapon, and a 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of affray and assaulting a police officer.

A man was taken to hospital to be treated for grazes to his arms and forehead after the Friday afternoon brawl, with onlookers saying four men attacked each other with rods and traffic signs outside Asda in Sutton High Street.

Another man was treated at the scene for cuts to his forehead.

The two men arrested have been bailed until February.

Sutton police report eight men were involved in the violence between 3pm and 4pm Friday evening, and said the brawlers hit each other with rods and traffic signs. 

A market trader who was there at the time claims just four people were involved.

He said : “A white guy was pushing a bike up the high street on its back wheel, then a black kid came up and tried to pull the bike off him.

“Another white guy then came up the street and started pushing the black guy backwards.

“The black kid went to punch him, the second white kid had a bar up his sleeve and started whacking the poor little black kid over the head with it.

“The black kid got away and the white guy started chasing him, but then he realised a second black kid had arrived so he ran off.

“They were running about asking market traders for weapons, I am not really sure what happened.

“Then the second black kid came back with a gold bar that had some kind of gold triangle on the end, it was a nasty looking thing, I don’t have the foggiest what it was.

“They disappeared around a corner. I heard that a white kid had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.”

Did you see the incident? Call Sutton police on 101.