A gang of four drunks who broke a man's nose in a street fight outside an Oxford nightclub have failed in a bid to shorten their jail terms.

The four men, two from Oxford, one from south London and a Southampton student, were jailed for six months each at Oxford Crown Court in April after admitting assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

All four appeared at the Court of Appeal on Friday, but had their sentences upheld by Lord Justice Scott Baker, Mr Justice Burnett and Judge Jeremy Roberts QC.

Mr Justice Burnett told the court how the four - Surfraz Nawaz, 26, of Netherwoods Road, and Sajad Tasib, 22, of Wilkins Road, both from Oxford; Saeed Akhtar, 21, from Southampton; and Sajid Anwar, 28, from Somerset Gardens, Lewisham - had been drinking heavily on the night of the assault.

They and their victim, Basem Alkhattabi, had been in Oxford's Bubbly Bar nightclub on September 9, 2007, before they came to blows outside.

Tasib started the early hours altercation by slapping Mr Alkhattabi in the face.

Mr Alkhattabi responded with a slap of his own, but was then subjected to a vicious beating at the hands - and feet - of all four of the men.

All four men admitted responsibility for the attack.

Their barrister, Steve Hosking, said all four men were "good family men" who had acted "out of character" due to alcohol.