Two youths who subjected an A-Level student to a brutal and humiliating attack have been jailed.

Mark Tyrell was left bleeding and terrified after 18-year-olds Daniel Harwood and Daniel Mills beat, stripped and threatened him during the unprovoked attack in Witney.

Harwood and Mills were sentenced to 18 months' youth custody at Oxford Crown Court on May 23. They had admitted wounding Mr Tyrell and using his cash card to steal £140 after demanding his PIN number.

The attack happened on March 6 shortly before midnight after Mr Tyrell intervened in an argument between Harwood and a member of staff in a fast food restaurant. When Mr Tyrell walked off he was followed and chased up the street.

Harwood caught up with him and punched and kicked him. Mills joined in, the pair knocked him to the ground and one of them urinated on him. Mills and Harwood both denied responsibility for this, each claiming the other had done it.

David Bright, prosecuting, said Harwood told his victim he was "teaching him a lesson".

Mr Tyrell was frogmarched to a nearby park and forced to remove clothes and get on the ground. They took his jacket, shoes, keys and wallet and demanded his cash card number.

They made him climb a fence into a nearby compound while they went to a bank.

After taking £140 from his account they returned to subject him to further humiliation. They threatened to bind his hands and feet, throw him into a nearby lake and set fire to his home.

Mr Tyrell eventually walked to his Witney home. His parents took him to the John Radcliffe Hospital, in Oxford, where he was given more than 20 stitches inside and outside his mouth.

Mr Bright said the attack had a traumatic effect on Mr Tyrell. It also interfered with the preparations for his A-Level exams and he had since lost a part-time job.

Harwood, of Colewell Drive, Witney, and Daniel Mills, of Weavery Close, Witney, will serve 18 months for wounding with intent and making unwarranted demands with menaces for the PIN number and will serve consecutive three-month sentences for theft.