A SOUTHAMPTON teenager headbutted and then punched an acquaintance in the face after he had refused to hand over his bicycle, the city crown court heard.

Matthew Scott was left dazed by what prosecutor Tom Wright called ‘an unpleasant and unsettling experience’.

Lewis Kirby, 18, of Fort Road, Woolston, admitted assault by beating and was bailed for sentence at the city crown court on January 13.