A Ramsey man has been jailed for 14 weeks for affray and possessing an offensive weapon after he failed to attend for a community service order.

Robert William James Houghton, aged 40, of College Street, was sentenced to community service on May 22 for the two offences. But he failed to attend meetings with probation about his community service on May 30, June 11 and June 18. When he finally did attend a meeting on June 26 he was abusive to staff.

The original offences occurred when Houghton punched a man at Prince’s Road in Ramsey and then on a separate occasion came out of his house to confront a man while he had a bat in his jacket.

Houghton claims he has suffered around five years of harassment from youths in Ramsey which the police have done nothing about.

He admitted the breaches of the community service order with his advocate Ian Kermode saying his client had ’buried his head in the sand’.

’The harassment is still ongoing,’ said Mr Kermode. ’His windows are banged on, he is being shouted at and abused in the street.’