A nurse helped orchestrate a “mass brawl” by a pack of Wolves fans in London’s West End, it was alleged in court today.

CCTV footage captured fan Claire Evans, aged 38, “encouraging and directing” up to 20 fellow football supporters to charge a much smaller group of men, it was said.

Her “targets” were butted and punched, with at least one victim clearly seen being kicked on the ground, a jury was told

Fourteen people were jailed and a number given football banning orders following the violence in Leicester Square following Wolves match against West Ham on October 2, 2004. Some of the orders were later revoked.

Evans, formerly from Slatch House Road, Bearwood, Birmingham, denies violent disorder.

Mr David Povall, prosecuting, said the gang was seen moving towards the station on Charing Cross Road.

The prosecutor added: “There they were seen to join up with some people, including this defendant and her fiancée. Some people start to move away as if to cross the road. Ms Evans is seen to gesture towards the camera, effectively across the road, and join a large number of those people. They come across the road and attack a group of men who were standing right outside a pub and the tube station.

“There was then a brawl during the course of which head-butts were used, punches were thrown, and certainly one bottle was thrown, and somebody was seen by people on the floor being kicked.

“The Crown says Ms Evans was involved in encouraging the others and directing them towards the targets and the people they ultimately attacked.”

He added that she did not take direct part in the violence. The trial of Evans, who now lives in Wales, continues.