A teenager allegedly kidnapped by a group of young men was left “badly beaten up”, a jury was told yesterday.

Ravi Sundar told Oxford Crown Court he had seen the 16-year-old youth, who cannot be named, shortly after the incident in December 2007.

The 41-year-old, who runs the Shelley Arms, in Cricket Road, said: “We saw that (he) had been badly beaten up, his face was all swollen and puffy. He told us what had happened to him.”

Mr Sundar rejected a suggestion from one of the defence barristers that the youth just suffered a cut lip. He said: "He looked like he had been beaten up quite badly.”

Haroon Mohammed, 20, of Golden Road, Oxford; Imran Khan, 18, of Shelley Road, Oxford; Mohammed Umar, 18, of Desborough Avenue, High Wycombe, Ameen Mohammed, 19, of Tawney Street, Oxford; Saqab Dogar, 19, of Tawney Street, Oxford; Shah Ahmed, 21, of West Wycombe Road, High Wycombe, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named, deny kidnapping and causing actual bodily harm to the 16-year-old and kidnapping Mandeep Singh on March 17, 2008.

The case continues.