This is the moment when a pair of thugs savagely beat two men to the ground when they came to the defence of a woman they had been harassing.

Police in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, arrested the pair who carried out the beatings outside a bar on Wednesday, 6th July.

Footage of the street brawl shows two younger men attacking two older men on the road outside the bar.

One – wearing red shorts – aims a punch at one man and then delivers a kung fu-style kick to his chest, sending him flying.

He then turns on a second silver-haired, bearded man, who is knocked to the ground and beaten and kicked mercilessly.

The images were released on 12th July.

According to staff, the attackers had emerged from a car next to the bar’s outdoor seats clearly under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

They had then started to harass both staff and customers, with a massive argument breaking out when they began to berate a woman.

As she tried to leave, the pair blocked her path, only to be challenged by gallant bar goers.

A five-man brawl broke out, with an off-duty police officer at the scene trying to separate the fighters until reinforcements arrived.

The two silver-haired men who had come to the woman’s defence were left bleeding heavily from the nose and mouth and were taken to hospital by ambulance.

One suffered a broken nose, while the other was left covered in bruises.

Police named the suspects as local men X. L. R. and R. P. G., both 38 years old. They stand accused of causing bodily injury.