A nightclub bouncer has described the moment he was shot in the stomach in a bar.

Kenneth Bain recalled seeing two flashes of light and hearing loud bangs before feeling pain in his abdomen at Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday.

It is alleged Mr Bain was shot by Ruben Campbell at the Envoy bar at Dudley’s Waterfront at an event called Screamer on the night of January 15.

Campbell was 19 at the time and is said to have smuggled the revolver into the club and opened fire following a row over a baseball cap. Mr Bain, who had only worked at the club for a month, told the court: “All I can remember is two flashes and a mass pile on. I remember grabbing hold of someone and then feeling a pain in my stomach.

“I was shook up quite a bit.”

However, despite picking Campbell out as the person who shot him in a video identity parade, Mr Bain told the court he was not sure it was in fact Campbell who pulled the trigger.

He said he had been shaken when he made his original statement to the police hours after the shooting. “I’m not going to send someone to prison I’m not 100 per cent sure about,” he said.

During the hearing, Mr Bain said that the club’s dress code dictated that clubbers should not wear caps and that he told Campbell several times to remove his hat.

Just before the shooting the same cap was being worn by a girl standing next to Campbell, now 20, and another bouncer, Daniel Johnson, removed it from her head and the shooting followed. Mr Bainwas rushed to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley. In a statement read out in court, Mr Bain admitted: “Whilst on the way to hospital I honestly thought I was going to die.”

Campbell, now 20, of Westgate Close, Sedgley, denies attempting to murder the two bouncers and possession of the firearm.

Yesterday Mr Stephen Thomas, prosecuting, had opened the case against Campbell by stating the cap had been “the catalyst for the trouble”.

He told the jury Campbell had fired two shots at bouncer Daniel Johnson but missed.

The trial continues.