A MAN told a court how he was punched and kicked unconscious in an alleged racist attack.

Jack Howe, 18, punched Abdu Mohamed in the chest at a bus stop in Bromley before the 35 year-old victim fell to the ground and was repeatedly kicked by a group of youths, a jury heard.

Giving evidence during the trial of Howe and four other young men, Mr Mohamed said his attackers had shouted racist abuse as he laid in the street. Before he was attacked the group allgedly asked him: “Where do you come from? What are you doing here?”

Mr Mohamed said: “I wanted to run but I couldn’t. They were just all over me. I was so frightened, I was asking them please, please.”

He told the trial at Croydon Crown Court that he fell unconscious and could not remember anything until he woke up in a hospital bed the next morning. He suffered a cut above his left eye and a bump to the back of the head.

The incident happened after Mr Mohamed fell asleep on a bus after a night out in South London and missed his stop in May this year. The jury watched CCTV footage of the attack outside Bromley North railway station. Howe, of Baring Road, Luke Gilby, 18, of Brandene Crescent, both Lewisham, Matthew Jarvis, 18, of Sandrock Road, SE13, and two teenagers who cannot be named for legal reasons all deny racially aggravated unlawful wounding.

Howe and one of the teenagers pleaded guilty to affray on Monday, a charge also denied by the other three defendants. The trial continues.