TWO drunken thugs who beat up a man at a bus stop are awaiting sentencing.

Abdu Mohamed, 35, lost consciousness as Jack Howe, 18, and a teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked him outside Bromley North railway station.

Mr Mohamed told a trial at Croydon Crown Court of his ordeal. He said: "I wanted to run but I couldn't. They were just all over me. I was so frightened, I was asking them please, please."

The attack happened after Mr Mohamed fell asleep on a bus after a night out in Brixton and missed his stop at Gipsy Hill, in May this year.

CCTV evidence showed Howe punch his victim in the chest before both boys kicked him as he lay on the ground.

He suffered a cut above his left eye and a bump at the back of the head.

Howe, of Baring Road, Grove Park, and the teenager both admitted affray before the trial started but denied racially aggravated malicious wounding.

Three others - Luke Gilby, 18, Matthew Jarvis, 18, and another teenager - were cleared by the jury of both charges on the direction of Judge John Tanzer after the prosecution offered no evidence against them.

The prosecution also offered no evidence in relation to the racially aggravated charges against Howe and the boy and a substitute charge of malicious wounding was ordered to lie on file.

Judge Tanzer told the two boys: "This was a very, very unpleasant incident. There is just no excuse for drunken violence and I have to think what to do with both of you.

"As for kicking people on the ground, people die as a result of being kicked, particularly if that blow goes to the head. If they don't die, they can suffer irreparable brain damage."

He adjourned sentencing until next month.