PHUKET: The Junie ''Lunatic'' Browning case will kickstart again early in 2012 when an Australian man who runs a bar on Phuket will be called to talk to police, the investigating officer said today.

Lieutenant Teanchai Dungsuwan told Phuktwan today that he planned to call in Simon Wilson Menzies, whose 33rd birthday party went horrible wrong when he and American Junie Browning came to blows.

The altercation continued later in the emergency rooms at Patong Hospital, on Phuket's holiday coast, where the two men and other participants in the brawl were taken for treatment.

Lieutenant Teanchai said he intended to question Mr Menzies about Mr Browning's allegations, made formally when the fugitive fighter, who fled the hospital after the incident, finally went to see police on December 21.

Mr Menzies also fronted police that day, 10 days after his birthday brawl at the Native Bar in Karon, another holiday town south of Patong.

Both men bear scars from their beer-mug swinging, bottle breaking encounter, which Mr Browning says went wrong when it escalated from being just what he termed a ''normal fight'' into a wild Phuket bar brawl.

Mr Browning says his injuries, especially where he was smashed across the head more than once, were so bad that he can't even train again as a professional fighter until the middle of the year.

Mr Menzies suffered a couple of long cuts and was wearing a back brace when he last visited police.

''I will ask Mr Menzies' wife, Sukanya Sisomboon, to come to the station, too,'' Lieutenant Teanchai said.

Both men blame each other for instigating the fight. The appearance of both Mr Menzies and Mr Browning at the Chalong Police Station around the same time on December 21 failed to result in a mediation session that police hoped could have settled the matter as a no-winner draw.

Mr Browning, whose Facebook site initially contained a relatively lighthearted take on the birthday clash which was quickly removed, made more serious allegations on December 21.

He said that he was set upon by 15 men, and that his life was in danger. In a telephone call after the clash, he said, Mr Menzies demanded 300,000 baht in compensation in a threatening manner.

Other accounts blame Mr Browning for starting the fight. They claim taxi drivers from a nearby cab rank eventually joined in to try to control him.

Mr Browning's whereabouts are currently not known. He was last believed to be heading for Bangkok with his girlfriend, Laura, for a more thorough medical examination of his damaged head.