was allegedly crashed by a group of uninvited teenaged boys who attacked a bouncer.

And Police have been accused of failing to provide protection to the people at the party after they were allegedly trapped inside by the youths when they later returned to the scene wielding weapons.

A Police spokesman said some ten teenaged boys arrived at the Bermuda Squash Club on Middle Road in Devonshire at about 9.30 p.m. on April 22.

A young club member was celebrating his birthday there after hiring out the facilities for the evening, a spokeswoman for the club said.

She said the youths, some of whom were club members, were asked to leave by the bouncers and did so.

However one of them allegedly returned and said he needed to get some money from one of his friends who was inside the club.

He was allowed in and allegedly went down stairs and opened a fire door so his waiting friends could get in.

The gatecrashers apparently forced partygoers upstairs and were confronted by the same doorman who had allowed the young man in earlier.

He asked him to leave but he refused so the doorman grabbed him by the arm and tried to physically throw him out.

The young man's friends started to fight with the bouncer and party members joined in the fracas.

Police officers were called to the scene and they sent several youths away before leaving.

The Club spokeswoman alleged the youths said they were going to get members of the Loyal Hill gang.

She said they returned to the party, after it had finished, with sticks and baseball bats and threatened to beat up anyone leaving so the partygoers were trapped inside.

One young man was allegedly beaten up as he tried to leave and Police were again called in order to provide some protection to the party members who were trying to leave, continued the spokeswoman.

She claimed Police officers returned to the scene but said it was "not their job'' to stay around to provide protection.

She said the Club would be banning the members who had gate crashed the party.

But a Police spokesman said officers, including one who had gone off duty earlier, attended the scene four times that night -- such was the concern over the situation.

And when Police attended the scene, he continued, there were youths in front of the building who left willingly when they were asked to do so.

No arrests were made as no charges were filed and no offences happened that Police were witness to, he said, adding that there was no indication that a Loyal Hill gang was involved in the incident.

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