TWO teenagers beat a man with the metal tube from a vacuum cleaner and a sheathed samurai sword in a daylight attack in Colchester.

Zak Walker and a friend armed themselves after they had been involved in a fight with three men, Colchester Magistrates Court heard on Thursday.

The pair walked around the town centre before they found one of the men in East Stockwell Street and attacked him.

Walker hit the man on the head and body with the vacuum cleaner tube.

The 26-year-old victim was treated for his injuries at Colchester General Hospital, but made no complaint to police about what had happened.

Walker, 18, admitted threatening behaviour, possession of an offensive weapon and possession of cannabis.

Roger Brice, mitigating, said that Walker’s actions had followed “a considerable degree of provocation”.

Walker is unemployed and was homeless when the offences were committed on September 22.

He now lives in a housing scheme run by crime prevention charity Nacro in Forest Road, on the town’s Greenstead estate.

District Judge David Cooper fined Walker £150 and ordered the vacuum cleaner tube and the drugs to be destroyed.

Walker’s friend failed to turn up to court.

A warrent was issued for his arrest.