A woman told a Bristol jury she was groped on St Pauls carnival night, shortly before a man was stabbed to death.

Karen Coleman told Bristol Crown Court she was at the Criterion pub in St Pauls following last year's festivities and a Somalian man touched her improperly.

Moments later April Bright fatally stabbed Mohamoud Hassan in his neck, claiming he groped her.

Bright, then 17, of Wilder Street in St Pauls, admits manslaughter but denies murder.

It is claimed she stabbed Mr Hassan because he was in a group of Somali men making "a lecherous nuisance of themselves".

Ms Coleman told the court she went to the evening carnival festivities with her partner, sister and friends.

She said they went to the Criterion, which was busy, and decided to leave when an incident occurred.

She told the court: "We were trying to push our way through the bar when a Somalian guy came up and grabbed me down below.

"I screamed at him and my sister screamed at me because she knew I would hit him, touching me like that.

"I had not seen him before, he was reasonably tall and he was not skinny but not big either."

Ms Coleman recalled that the man who touched her had a black and white patterned scarf reminiscent of Arab headdress.

She told the court: "He put his hand down below from in front when he was facing me and I shouted at him 'don't touch me!'

"He jumped back, my sister was sort of behind me and if she hadn't shouted at me I probably would have hit him.

"I said 'come on, let's just get out of here' and we went to Easton."

Ms Coleman said that some hours later she and her friends returned to St Pauls and when they went to the Criterion it was all shut off.

Evidence in the trial has now concluded and barristers for the prosecution and defence are making their closing speeches to the jury before the Honourable Mr Justice Roderick Evans sums up the case and lets them retire to consider their verdict.

The case continues at Bristol Crown Court.