A NIGHTCLUB bouncer has admitted killing a Southampton construction worker who died after a single punch to the head following a row in the street.

Aspiring lawyer Mohammed Waqar, 22, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Simon Bampton, who was working away in Bristol when he was assaulted.

Mr Bampton, 28, from Thornhill, suffered a brain haemorrhage after his head snapped back from a single punch.

He was walking through the city centre with a colleague after a night out drinking when they became involved in the altercation with Waqar, of Stratford Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham, at around 2.30am.

Together with his family, Mr Bampton’s partner Natasha Matthews, who he had lived with for six years, rushed to his hospital bedside at Bristol Royal Infirmary and was with him when he died on August 19 last year.

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Police launched a murder inquiry and Miss Matthews made a television appeal for witnesses to come forward before Waqar was arrested.

Speaking after his death, Miss Matthews said Mr Bampton was the “love of her life”.

“We were so happy together,”

she said.

“There was not a day that went by when we did not say that we loved each other. I feel like part of me has gone with him.

“I feel absolutely distraught by what has happened,” she added.

Waqar, who was working as a doorman in Bristol at the time, had completed the first year of a civil engineering course at Birmingham City University and was in the process of transferring to a law degree.

At Bristol Crown Court yesterday, Judge Jamie Tabor QC adjourned the case pending a pre-sentence report.

Waqar was released on bail and will be sentenced on February 4.