TWIN brothers were attacked in a flat where they had gone in the early hours after a pub birthday party, a jury heard.

Violence blew up after Darren Wade repeatedly asked for a lift home.

He ended up with a severed artery in his right arm which needed a three-hour operation, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Mr Wade claimed that Gareth Hobbs, who lived in the flat in Canada Way, Lower Wick, launched an unprovoked attack on him with a beer glass.

His identical twin, John Wade, suffered multiple scalp cuts and needed six stitches.

The brothers allege that, after the attack, Hobbs and another unknown assailant went to a phone box with baseball bats as they dialled 999 for an ambulance.

Darren Wade told the jury that, as his brother tried to shield him, John was struck with the bats.

Hobbs, aged 23, denies two counts of wounding the twins with intent to cause them grevious bodily harm on November 3 last year.

He also denies a third charge of assaulting John Wade and causing actual bodily harm.

Brian Mahon, prosecuting, said that when the defendant was arrested he claimed one twin wanted his car keys and he did not want them to stay.

Hobbs pushed one man and insisted he then became involved in a fight with the twins.

He denied using a weapon, or going outside his flat, and said he only wanted them to leave. He did not know how blood had come to cover his home.

The jury heard that the twins left a pub party in Lower Wick and were invited to Hobbs' flat at 3am with seven other men.

Darren Wade asked a number of times about a lift home.

"All of a sudden, I was struck on my head with a pint glass. I could see it in Gareth Hobbs' hand," he said in evidence.

He was knocked over and felt two more blows. He claimed he saw Hobbs armed with a broken glass.

"It was the third blow that got my arm. There was blood gushing everywhere," he said.

As he left the first-floor flat, he saw his brother being kicked in the head and chest.

At the phone box, his twin knelt by his side, holding his injured arm.

"Two men came over with bats. I recognised Gareth. John was struck two or three times," he added.

The attackers ran off when an ambulance arrived.

Mr Wade, who had drunk up to 11 pints of lager, denied suggestions in cross-examination that he was threatening over his demands for a lift or threw a punch at the defendant.

The trial continues.