A Crosby man has been jailed for 16 months after headbutting a police officer while he was subject to a suspended sentence.

Jason Craig Quayle, of Reayrt-ny-Chrink, was sentenced to four months in custody for the assault with a 12-month suspended sentence being activated in full to run consecutively.

Quayle, who is 22, pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and two counts of breaching a licensing ban imposed in November 2019 for one year.

Prosecuting advocate James Robinson told the court that police were called to the Bordello night club on July 25 after a report of Quayle entering the bar despite his ban. Security staff had brought him to the front of the premises when police arrived but he then ran off with officers giving chase.

He was caught, put on the ground and handcuffed as he tried to strike out at police but missed.

Quayle was said to be slurring his words and smelling of alcohol.

Once at police headquarters he was sick in a cell so had to be moved to another one.

However, as he was being moved he headbutted one of the officers on the chin.

The court also heard Quayle had been reported buying a four-pack of Carlsberg lager at the Co-op in Duke Street on May 11.

Quayle was handed the 12-month sentence, suspended for two years on November 7 for eight offences, including two common assaults and one police assault.

A probation report said that Quayle had said he started drinking at a young age to cope with anxiety and depression.

He admitted that he was intoxicated when he arrived at Bordello, on Victoria Street in Douglas, but said he could not remember the headbutt.

Quayle was said to have written a letter of apology to the officer.

The report said that he has been working with the Drug and Alcohol Team (DAT) since December.

Defence advocate Ian Kermode said that his client could not recall being arrested or the assault.

’He doesn’t recall the headbutt but has accepted there was contact with the officer’s chin,’ said the advocate.

’He has been engaging well with DAT and it is my submission these two occasions were exceptions. He has been off illegal drugs since December.’

Mr Kermode said that it was a ’bold request’ but asked magistrates not to activate the suspended sentence.

But magistrates chair Julie Maddrell told Quayle: ’You have committed a further offence of violence when subject to a suspended sentence imposed in part for violence.’