HORRIFYING footage shows a yob battering a man with a pole as a mass brawl explodes on the streets close to Wembley Stadium.

A disturbing clip shows eight men in black hoodies kicking and punching each other at the side of a busy road in the north-west London.

Thugs are seen running past each other before one man chases another to a grassy patch at the side of the road and another starts beating him with a massive pole.

The victim is seen cowering on the floor as the perpetrator's friends shout: "Dead him! Dead him! Dead him!"

An onlooker then shouts out: "Hey hey hey", in a bid to stop the violence.

Thugs can be seen trying to kick the man back into the bushes before they swagger off, one dropping the metal pole on the pavement.

An eyewitness who recorded the clip said two gangs of youths were fighting in a nearby McDonald's when the fight spilled out onto Wembley Park Drive at 9.30pm on Friday.

The man, who was out celebrating his his colleagues, was stunned when around 20 men from "rival gangs" starting attacking each other.

The shocking clip emerged on social media today and users expressed their disgust at the violence in the video.

One wrote: "Shouting dead him, dead him and when he dies and they all get life under joint enterprise, they'll be crying in jail #stoptheviolence".

The footage has appeared at the end of a year in which a rise in violent crime has been highlighted as one of the biggest issues to hit the UK.

Dozens of people have been fatally stabbed in the capital since the beginning of this year as latest figures show knife crime has soared to seven-year high.

Knife and gun offences are "disproportionately concentrated" in London and other metropolitan areas, where the number of homicides overtook last year's toll weeks ago.