A policeman has admitted he made a series of mistakes in his evidence about a stag night that ended in violence.

PC Spencer Scott told Hove Crown Court he had included incidents he believed he had seen during clashes between officers and revellers from Crawley.

But the officer denied making any facts up to try and justify anything he or any other officers had done that night.

He said: "I have justified the things I have done. I don't have to justify what other officers did - that is up to them. What I wrote in my statements is what I believed happened at the time."

When cross-examined, he agreed his statements were wrong when compared with surveillance footage of the scenes outside the Honey Club on Brighton seafront.

It is alleged members of the group, which included bouncers from Crawley, attacked doormen and police on March 1 last year.

Police allegedly used batons on members of the group and several were bitten by a police dog.

PC Scott admitted he was wrong when he said he had hit Robert Cohen with his baton when police film showed he had hit another man instead.

He agreed, after watching the video and seeing police photographs, that Cohen had not hit him and that he was wrong about the clothes Cohen was wearing.

Walton Hornsby, prosecuting, made an admission on behalf of the Crown that PC Scott had also misidentified another reveller arrested after police stopped the group's coach as they left the city.

PC Scott had said earlier in the trial that he had seen fellow officer Darren Eagen hit Ian Jackson over the head with his baton.

Cohen, 25, of Ifield, Crawley; Simon Grimmer, 26, of Abinger drive, Redhill; Wayne Howell, 26, and Jackson, 37, of Roffey Close, Horley; deny violent disorder.

The trial continues.