A MAN was attacked with a baseball bat after being chased along a Stourport street in the early hours, Worcester Crown Court was told.

Richard Kilgour was struck on the ribs, head and leg and needed hospital treatment.

Aaron Weavers, 21, of Bullus Road, Stourport, denies wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and the alternative charge of unlawful wounding.

Prosecutor Nick Tatlow said Mr Kilgour and his girlfriend Lorna Edwards left The Outback nightclub in Lombard Street, Stourport, on September 30 last year.

They called in at the Esso service station in Vale Road at 2am where Weavers was involved in a row with Herbie Nunn - one of Mr Kilgour's friends - on the forecourt. Weavers then left to go home.

Mr Kilgour set off to walk towards Kidderminster but had only reached Prospect Road when two cars pulled up. A man armed with a baseball bat got out.

Giving evidence, Mr Kilgour told the jury a man he identified as Weavers chased him along Prospect Road shouting: "You'd better keep running because I'm going to kill you."

He stopped exhausted and was hit in the ribs and knocked to the ground.

He looked up but was struck on the head and knocked unconscious. When he came to, his head was bleeding.

He went down the road and saw Weavers who allegedly told him: "Look what you have done to me. " Weavers pointed to his mouth, showing some teeth had been knocked out.

Mr Kilgour said he managed to walk back to the Esso garage, where he collapsed. He needed ten stitches in a forehead wound. A cut in his ear was glued.

Cross-examined by Mr Geoffrey Clough, defending, he said he had been celebrating his birthday and had drunk eight pints of stout, followed by vodka and beer. "But I still had my wits about me," he added.

Asked why it was a fortnight before he went to police, Mr Kilgour said the delay was because he was in shock.

The trial continues.