A Brentry man has admitted biting a woman's foot so hard she received a suspected fracture - but said he was acting in self-defence.
Courtney Ranganai Hoyi admitted attacking Daisy-Ellen Spikes in December last year, causing her a suspected hairline fracture to a toe.
The 27-year-old, of Bensaunt Grove, appeared before Bristol magistrates on January 21 and pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Magistrates remanded him in custody pending a hearing at Bristol Crown Court yesterday (February 21).
At the crown court, the recorder Mr Rufus Taylor, heard that Hoyi's basis of plea differed from the case presented by the prosecution.
While the complainant says Hoyi bit her foot and dragged her with his teeth, Hoyi says the complainant kicked him in the face and, effectively, he was defending himself.
The recorder adjourned sentence, pending a fact finding hearing including the complainant on March 8.
That is two days after Hoyi, who is in custody, appeals against a decision to deport him to Zimbabwe.
At the magistrates' court, Robyn Rowland, defending, said the complainant conceded there was an argument in which she slapped Hoyi and things progressed from there.
Mr Rowland said: "It was a fairly short incident.
"He accepts he bites her foot and he has pleaded guilty to that.
"His basis of plea is the first violence was on the part of the complainant towards him and he then acted in self-defence, it goes beyond that and he bites her foot."
