A 22-year-old man from Peel has been convicted of common assault, being drunk and disorderly, and property damage.

Billy Robert Sumner, of Circular Road, admitted the offence and will be sentenced on August 14 after a probation report has been completed.

Prosecutor Barry Swain told the court how, on April 20 at 11.15am, police were called to a domestic incident at Westmoreland Road in Douglas.

Sumner was outside the property with his partner inside.

She told police they had argued over money and he had become aggressive and had thrown her mobile phone out of a window, causing its screen to smash.

The woman said there had been some pushing and shoving and that Sumner had pushed her into a chest of drawers, causing some bruising.

She said he told her: ’I’d love to kick your head in. Your ex-boyfriend should have done it.’

The woman said that her 18-year-old son then tried to intervene but during a struggle Sumner had headbutted him in the face causing a cut to the bridge of his nose.

In a separate incident, on June 15 at 9.20pm, Sumner was attending a wake at the Colby Glen hotel.

He was seen by the pub manager bringing his own bottles of alcohol into the pub and pouring the lager into glasses on the premises.

He was asked not to do so by the manager but swore at him.

He was asked to leave and police were eventually called.

But Sumner squared up to the pub’s assistant manager saying: ’Just wait til you’re out of here. I’ll tear your throat out. I’ll kill you.’

Defence advocate Darren Taubitz entered a basis of plea on behalf of his client saying that Sumner accepted damaging the phone but that his partner had also thrown items belonging to him out of the window.

He said that the headbutt had been reckless and had happened during the struggle.

Mr Taubitz asked for a probation report to be prepared before sentencing, with input from mental health services and the Drug and Alcohol Team.

The advocate also said that his client wished to surrender his bail and be remanded in custody.