A WOMAN needed staples in her head after a stranger pulled her hair and hit her with a bottle at a city centre nightclub, a court heard.

Harjeet Singh, of Uxbridge Road, Slough, denies attacking Tabitha Lovatt at the former Lava Ignite club in Park End Street on April 5 last year.

Prosecuting, Naomi Perry told Oxford Crown Court Ms Lovatt was dancing with friends when Singh started “bothering” her at about 1.30am.

She said Ms Lovatt, who had drunk between three and four cocktails, told the 35-year-old to leave her alone but he punched and kicked her in the right side of her stomach.

Ms Perry said she then slapped him before he pulled her “really hard” by the hair, causing her “a lot of pain”.

The prosecutor said Ms Lovatt then felt a “throbbing” pain and saw blood running down her face after Singh hit her with a bottle.

She said a one centimetre cut to Ms Lovatt’s head needed staples at the John Radcliffe Hospital and her DNA was found on Singh’s clothing.

Ms Lovatt wept as she recalled her ordeal.

She said: “I was just so shocked. My blood was everywhere. All down my clothes, all over my friends’ clothes. I just remember thinking ‘I want to go home’.”

Singh denies unlawful wounding and action tending and intending to pervert the course of public justice between April 5, 2014, and December 31, 2014.

The trial continues.