A man described by a judge as a menace to the community when he had been drinking was spared an extra spell in jail.

Martyn Knight-Jones, 31, had spent the equivalent of more than 12 months imprisonment on remand, Caernarfon Crown Court heard on Wednesday (November 10).

He was told by Judge Nicola Saffman that she wanted to break the cycle of confrontational offending which had proved a problem for police, his neighbours and the locality.

He pleaded guilty with his brother Anthony Knight, 30, both of Hazel Drive, Penyffordd, to causing actual bodily harm to a man in White Lion Close, Wrexham, who had been struck on the head with a plant pot after turning up at his home in a dispute about a damaged Transit van.

Knight-Jones also was also accused alone of five separate offences – criminal damage, threatening to damage or destroy property, resisting police, breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order and threatening behaviour.

Martyn Walsh, prosecuting, said he had threatened officers in the street that he would stab them in the neck if they turned up at his home, that he would burn down their houses and set his dog on them to “rip your b****” off.

The prosecutor said a criminal damage offence related to smashing a British Legion branch window which had been seen on CCTV.

Knight-Jones, was handed a 24-month community order which will involve being tagged to ensure that 120 days of alcohol abstinence is observed.

He must carry out 40 days of rehabilitation and 35 sessions of thinking skills.

His brother Anthony Knight was given a seven month suspended sentence for the assault, with 20 days rehabilitation and 100 hours of unpaid work.

Brian Treadwell, defending the pair, said Knight-Jones wished to apologise to the victim of the assault and the police for his behaviour.

Knight-Jones was keen to make changes in his life so he could offer support to his family. Help from the probation service would assist him to keep on the straight and narrow. Anthony Knight was a carer for his father, who suffered from heart trouble.

Judge Saffman said it was important to end a cycle of violence which involved Knight-Jones in a “revolving door of offending” which had been a problem for police, neighbours and people in the area.