A NEIGHBOUR'S dispute culminated with one man biting off part of another man's nose in the street where they both lived, York Crown Court heard.

Martin Kenneth Lunn, 36, will have to pay £2,000 compensation to his former neighbour for the injury he inflicted on July 20 last year in Stuart Road, Acomb.

The Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Batty QC, said: "This was a brutal things to do. To use your teeth, to sink your teeth into the nose of another human being is brutal.

"You really simply lost it when you went outside."

He said: "I understand there had been a considerable dispute between you and your neighbour. The rights and wrongs ...... are not for me this afternoon."

He suspended a two-year prison sentence for two years after reading a probation report on Lunn and defence barrister Andrew Espley told him Lunn had health problems since 2015 which had put him in hospital and required him needing an ECG scan.

Lunn, now living in Birkenhead, Merseyside, pleaded guilty causing grievous bodily harm.

Amy Levitt, prosecuting, said the victim had already had two operations and would require another as surgeons reconstructed part of his nose.

The incident began with a confrontation between Lunn's partner and their neighbour in the street during which she waved a brick at him in Stuart Road, Acomb, at 3.30pm.

Seeing the scuffle that follow, Lunn came out of his house and grabbed the neighbour, who responded by head-butting and kicking him.

They separated, but then Lunn started shouting and gesturing at him, swung his arms and lunged forward with his head.

The neighbour stepped back and Lunn lunged forward again, this time biting off part of his nose. Surgeons decided it could not be reattached.

Mr Espley said Lunn was £30,000 in debt and lived on benefits.

The judge delayed the first payment of the compensation until August while he finds employment.