A MACHINE operator who punched a woman in a Southampton nightspot, has been ordered to pay her £150 compensation.

Malik Ahmedzai, 32, was said to have accidentally touched victim Tyla O’Mahoney as she walked downstairs in the Revival nightclub.

She threw her drink over him and Ahmedzai, who had drunk about four pints, punched her to the left side of her head without much force before being detained by door staff.

Ahmdedzai, of Northumberland Road, Southampton, admitted assault by beating for which he got a 12-month community order with £150 costs.