Three more members of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club have been sentenced for their roles in a brutal assault on the president of a rival Outlaws chapter in the Forest of Dean, adding another chapter to a bitter territorial clash that left a 60-year-old man with life-altering injuries and his club’s cut taken as a trophy.

At Bristol Crown Court this week, Joshua Bell, 32, of Gloucester, was handed a 17-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to violent disorder. Mark Gibson, 56, of Knutsford, received a 24-month sentence suspended for two years along with 50 days of rehabilitative activity. Paul Price, 57, of Newport, was given a 14-month sentence also suspended for two years, plus a six-month electronic tag and a ban on associating with motorcycle gangs. The court heard the three men were on the “periphery” of the attack rather than at the center of the violence.

The main assault took place in Coleford in April 2025. Members of Rock Machine targeted the president of the Gloucester and Forest of Dean chapter of The Outlaws. Some of the attackers carried metal poles, a baseball bat, and a hammer. The goal, according to prosecutors and police, was to assert dominance over the rival club.

Six Rock Machine members had already been jailed in June for their direct involvement: Lee Rogers, Billy Timmins, Robert Greenacre, Kyle Matthews, Darren Rimmer, and Ashley Lauterdale. A seventh man, Luke Cole, who was not a club member, faces sentencing at a later date. The judge described Cole as a “hanger on” who had been used by the group, noting his significant mental health problems and trauma.

The victim, a 60-year-old man, suffered a bleed on the brain, multiple fractures to his jaw, and a broken nose. His partner was also badly hurt, sustaining fractured ribs and a fractured wrist. Acting Detective Sergeant Robert Humphreys of Gloucestershire Police confirmed the injuries and highlighted one of the most significant acts in the eyes of the motorcycle club world: the attackers took the Outlaws president’s cut.

“It bears the club insignia and also a member’s rank within the club,” Humphreys said. “I believe it was to assert dominance over the other gang. The president was targeted. To take his cut is a big trophy for a rival gang.”

In the outlaw motorcycle club culture, the cut is more than clothing. It is identity, rank, and belonging. Stripping it from a chapter president in a public attack sends a clear message of conquest. CCTV footage from the incident captured parts of the assault, and some of the Rock Machine members were seen earlier in a pub wearing clothing marked with the club’s motto “A.L.V.A.L.M.” — short for “A La Vie A La Mort,” French for “To the Life Until Death.”

Dr. Simon Harding, professor of criminology and sociology at St Mary’s University, placed the violence in the broader context of club dynamics. “All clubs vie for position, control, and local dominance in regional areas,” he said. Outlaw motorcycle clubs, he noted, “consider themselves to be the elite of the motorcycle community and are viewed as rebels and outcasts.” Violence, according to Harding, can serve as a demonstration of strength tied to territorial claims and the defense of club honor. He pointed to “sporadic violence” between the two groups in the past.

Gloucestershire Constabulary described the level of vicious rivalry seen in the Coleford attack as rare for the area. That rarity does not diminish the impact. The targeting of a chapter president, the use of weapons, the severe injuries, and the deliberate removal of the cut turn what might have been dismissed as a street fight into a calculated move in the ongoing contest between clubs for respect and control.

The sentences handed down this week close one phase of the case while leaving others open. Bell will serve 40 percent of his term in custody before release on licence. Gibson and Price remain under court restrictions that limit their movements and associations. Cole’s sentencing is still pending. For the Outlaws member who was attacked and for the Rock Machine members now dealing with the consequences, the events of that April day in Coleford continue to echo through the court system and through the motorcycle club world that both sides claim as their own.

The Forest of Dean is not traditionally known as a hotbed of intense club warfare, yet the injuries, the weapons, and the stolen cut make clear that when two outlaw clubs collide over territory and status, the results can be serious. Police continue to treat these cases as more than ordinary violence. In the language of the clubs themselves, the cut was the prize. In the language of the courts, the convictions keep stacking up.

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