article_snippet.sent: Fighting broke out after the bar closed, and Mr Potts, a father-of-six and grandfather-of-one who was described by Gordon Robson sister as 'a big softie', stepped in to stop it.
article_snippet.sent: Newcastle Crown Court heard despite intervention from the emergency services, Mr Potts could not be saved.
article_snippet.sent: Sarah said  Mr Potts death had a 'devastating impact' on the family.
article_snippet.sent: Sarah said Mr Potts stepchildren and eight-year-old daughter, Emma, now fear Mr Potts' stepchildren and eight-year-old daughter, Emma family won't come back whenever their family leave the house.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potts sisters said in just her dad and hero statements the 'life and soul has been ripped from their family' and described their brother as a 'big softie'.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potts brother George said Mr Potts' brother George wakes every Sunday at 5.30am, the time Mr Potts' brother George was informed of Mr Potts' brother George siblings death, and
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potts' brother George had been drinking at the NE38 Sports Bar in Washington, Tyne and Wear, after Mr Potts' brother George grandfather's funeral when fighting broke out.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potts, described as a 'big softie', was killed when Mr Potts' brother George tried to intervene .
article_snippet.sent: Judge Paul Sloan QC jailed Mr Potts' brother George, of Waskerley Way, Washington, Tyne and Wear, who admitted manslaughter, to three-and-a-half years behind bars.
article_snippet.sent: It is also clear his siblings death has had a profound effect upon Mr Potts family. '
article_snippet.sent: No sentence imposed upon you could ever serve to ease the pain of Mr Potts family. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potts' brother George accepted Mr Potts' brother George 'misinterpreted' Mr Potts' brother George actions that night, when Mr Potts' brother George already emotional state had been heightened by alcohol, and realises now Mr Potts' brother
article_snippet.sent: George should not have hit Mr Potts' brother George.
article_snippet.sent: Bob Spragg, defending, said Robson, who has a history of violent offending dating back to when Mr Potts' brother George was just 14, had turned Mr Potts' brother George life around after Mr Potts' brother George last prison sentence .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Potts' brother George added that Mr Potts' brother George had also found Mr Potts' brother George a partner who is about to give birth.
article_snippet.sent: Bob Spragg said: 'Absolutely no blame attaches to Mr Potts for anything that happened to Mr Potts. '