Jurors in the murder case of teenager Joe Dymond- Williams have retired to consider their verdict.

Student Joe, 17, of Whitchurch, was punched unconscious before having his head kicked "like a football" when he intervened in row, Bristol Crown Court heard.

The jury of seven men and five women has been told he was out with friends in the city centre and stepped in when his friend had a heated exchange with a girl in Queen Charlotte Street.

As he did so Jack Sanderson-Hunt punched Joe to the ground – where he fractured his skull and lay unconscious as Thomas Swift kicked him to the right temple, causing another fracture.

Joe lapsed into a coma and died as a result of head injuries two weeks later.

Sanderson-Hunt, 18, of Dundry View, Bristol, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and will be sentenced later. Swift, 18, of Ellfield Close, Highridge, Bristol, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder and is on trial. The case continues.