A “brutal” duo accused of battering a man with golf clubs and slashing his face inside his home have gone on trial.

Damien Catchpole, 43, and Tania Vella, 53, stand accused of breaking eight of their victim’s ribs, wounds to his face and head, and a cut to his kidney.

The pair, both from Newcastle Hill, Ramsgate, deny wounding Michael Griffin with intent, with Vella also denying causing grievous bodily harm with intent, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

She previously pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm after being filmed stamping on Mr Griffin’s head as he lay unconscious.

The three neighbours and others had been drinking alcohol in Vella’s flat when Mr Griffin left following a row, prosecutors said.

Vella would later knock on Mr Griffin’s front door before punching him twice in the face, then slam his head into a corridor wall, CCTV showed.

After Mr Griffin’s head hit the floor he became unresponsive.

Jurors saw Vella kick him twice, stamp on his thigh and disappear off-screen.

She then returned to stamp on Mr Griffin’s face causing a wound to the back of his head, CCTV footage showed.

“Anyone who stamps on someone’s face on the floor has the intent to cause really serious injury,” prosecutor David Attridge told jurors.

After regaining consciousness Mr Griffin managed to crawl inside his front door leaving behind a pool of blood, Mr Attridge said.

And after Catchpole appeared in the corridor, the pair pursued their victim to deliver a “vicious, brutal, sustained attack upon a vulnerable individual,” Mr Attridge continued.

“It was an attack which started outside the front door of Mr Griffin’s home, that attack continued inside Mr Griffin’s home.

“Not only were both individuals involved but Mr Griffin was attacked with weapons.

“There is evidence golf clubs were used to beat him with and a knife was used to cause injury to his face,” Mr Attridge continued.

During the attack one witness heard Catchpole say he was "going to play golf,” the court heard.

"The reason you didn’t call an ambulance is because you clubbed and knifed this man in his home,” Kane Sharpe, Vella’s lawyer, told Catchpole.

“That’s rubbish mate,” he replied.

“You retrieved a golf club from a bag and shouted that you were going to play golf,” the lawyer continued.

“No,” Catchpole replied.

“What you meant is that you were going to play golf with Mr Griffin,” Mr Sharpe went on.

“I find you ridiculous for asking questions like that,” said Catchpole.

“You alone carried out a grim attack on Miss Vella’s neighbour,” said Mr Sharpe.

“No I didn’t,” protested Catchpole.

Mr Griffin suffered multiple lacerations to his face, cuts to his head and knee, a tear to his left kidney and eight broken ribs.

And he had no recollection of how he wound up at the QEQM hospital, where he would be treated for nine days following the June 21 attack last year, the court heard.

“I have been told I have cracks to my ribs and injuries to my face, which I haven’t seen yet,” he told officers from the Margate hospital.

Police later discovered two of Mr Griffin’s golf clubs carrying DNA evidence, with one inside his home and another inside Vella’s flat.