Premiership: Leeds footballers' trial collapses

The trial of Leeds United's Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate has been halted.

The jury has also been discharged by the judge at Hull Crown Court after legal submissions.

England international Woodgate, former England U-21 captain Lee Bowyer, and two of Woodgate's friends were accused of a street attack on an Asian student.

Bowyer, 24, of Leeds, Woodgate, Paul Clifford and Neale Caveney, all 21 and from Middlesbrough, deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent to 20-year-old Sarfraz Najeib. They also deny affray.

Mr Najeib, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, suffered serious injuries in the attack in Mill Hill, Leeds, in January last year.

He spent eight days in hospital with a broken leg, fractured cheekbone and a bite mark to his cheek.

The jury of seven men and four women last week found Leeds United defender Michael Duberry, Woodgate, Clifford and Caveney not guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.