Riot biker gang member arrested

Mark Larner is thought to have fled to South Africa while on bail

A biker who went missing after being convicted of taking part in a riot at an airport has handed himself in.

Mark Larner, 47, did not turn up for when rival gang members were sentenced over the brawl at Birmingham International in January 2008.

Three Hells Angel gang members and four members of the Outlaws were jailed in May for six years each for rioting.

Larner, formerly of Dudley, is thought to have fled to South Africa. He is due to be sentenced on 23 November.

West Midlands Police said Larner had handed himself in at a police station in Bristol last week.

Birmingham Crown Court had heard that up to 30 members of the Hells Angels and Outlaw biker groups clashed at the airport, some wielding knuckledusters and hammers.

Four Outlaws - Mark Moseley, 46, of Orchard Rise, Sheldon, Birmingham; Neale Harrison, 46, of Bell Green Road, Coventry; Mark Price, 50, from Westbury Road, Nuneaton, Warwickshire; and Jeremy Ball, 46, from Plant Street, Cheadle, Staffordshire; were found guilty of rioting.

Three Hells Angels - Paul Arlett, 35, from Penn Road, Wolverhampton; Sean Timmins 38, from Briewood Road, Wolverhampton; and Leonard Hawthorne, 52, of Eve Lane, Dudley; were also found guilty of rioting.