A teenage boy told a jury how he was subjected to the "worst night ever" by a married couple in a mobile home.

Bradford Crown Court heard how the 15-year-old was punched, kicked, stamped on and hit with a piece of wood during the ordeal in Brighouse in April.

He had been acting as a look-out for two men who were breaking into cars when Donald Fisher and his wife Fatima Bertal-Fisher chased them. It was claimed that Fisher then caught him, pushed him against a wall and told him to shut up.

Giving evidence via a video-link, the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he was made to go into the camper van in Owler Ings Road, Brighouse, and put some of his belongings in a brown bag.

He also claimed he was told the bag would be given to the police after his name had been written on it.

The couple are accused of holding the boy overnight for about eight hours.

Stephen Wood, for Fisher, suggested to the teenager under cross-examination that he had been injured during a struggle outside the van.

But the teenager replied: "He pushed me into a van and started beating me up and stamped on my back."

He rejected claims he had been tied up because he was struggling.

He said: "l didn't make it up. If I did make it up, I would not have these bruises.

"He battered me in his van, and that's the truth. Why would I lie about that? That was the worst night ever."

The court heard how the teenager suffered bruising and swelling to his face, ears and back along with marks to his wrists.

He accepted that he tagged along with the two other men earlier that night even though he knew it would be a "recipe for crime" because he did not want them to think he was a coward.

When he was cross-examined by Bertal-Fisher's barrister Elyas Patel, the teenager claimed she waved a knife inside the van and threatened to stab him. He also alleged that she threw a piece of wood at him, placed a garden tool against the back of his ear and threatened to blind him with a spray if he moved.

Fisher, 55, and Bertal-Fisher, 29, of Owler Ings Road, Brighouse, have pleaded not guilty to false imprisonment and assault.

The trial continues.