A teenager caught loitering "suspiciously" in a vehicle recovery yard found himself on the wrong end of a forklift.

In an incident captured on closed-circuit TV, the manager of AAA Recovery in Leyland, Lancashire, Steven Marchbank, and his employee, Michael Prescott, tied up the youth and used a forklift to dangle him in the air, The Liverpool Echo reported.

However, the punishment was not without its consequences and the two men found themselves in Preston Crown Court, where they admitted to actual bodily harm assault.

Robert Elias, the prosecutor, told the court Marchbank and Prescott wanted to teach the teenager a lesson.

Both were granted bail and will be sentenced on December 20.