IT has been nearly four months since thugs wielding a machete, baseball bat and what seemed to be a samurai sword, went after some fans watching a Martonmere Cup semi-final at the Devonshire Rec - a horrifying scene caught on ZBM's cameras.

And as of yet they have still to appear before the courts charged with anything.

A Police spokesman said this week they did expect for someone to be charged but could not say when. That was a same answer when asked last November.

And Inspector Craig Morfitt, who conducted the investigation, said he has completed his investigation and that the file had been sent though to his "chain of supervision".

Right now no one seems to know if or when anyone will be charged. Director of Public Prosecutions Khamisi Tokunbo said that he did remember the file coming to his office but did not know if they had sent it back to the Police with any recommendations on whether anyone should be charged.

It was on October 29 last year during a night match between Devonshire Colts and Devonshire Cougars when a violent fight broke out among two feuding groups in the crowd situated on the eastern embankment of the grounds. Fans watched in horror as thugs wielding the deadly weapons went after a group of men who escaped on to the playing field. The attack was captured by ZBM's cameras and in one scene a man armed with what appeared to be a machete narrowly missed chopping another man's head off.

Inspector Morfitt said: "The whole file has been forwarded from us for a decision on who will be charged. We have done our side. We are waiting for directions as to who is to be charged. The file went through me to my chain of supervision." Morfitt added that he guessed the Director of Public Prosections has the file now.

Asked why it is taking so long for anyone to be charged, Inspector Morfitt replied: "It was a long inquiry trying to get statements from people. But the file has been gone (from his hands) for a while now."

When asked if he now had the file, director of Public Prosecutions, Khamisi Tokunbo said: "I am not sure but I do think the file did come to us. I am not sure if we still have it - I can't remember off the top of my head. I have a feeling it has come to us and maybe we have sent it back."

Tokunbo said that they would be advising the Police on the file and then it would go back to the senior officer in charge of the investigation who in turn would send it to the Police prosecutions. "I do not make any statements of whether someone will be prosecuted or not," he added.

The secretary of the Bermuda Football Association, David Sabir said: "We have not heard from the Police at all. We are going to be releasing our own statement of what we have been able to discover irrespective of what happens in the courts.

"I suspect that the court will take care of itself. I don't want to speak down on what the courts or the Police are doing. It is for them to do their function and they will carry it out accordingly. In the meantime we just have to demand that our spectators and players conduct themselves in the right manner and if not they will face consequences."

Sabir said he would not say what the results of the BFA's investigation are. He added: "We will be meeting next week Wednesday with our board to lay out a few things that we want to do. We have to do our job and we will go from there. We are concerned but not to the point where we have to make a public spectacle of it."