A teenager has been to 16 weeks custody after assaulting a man and stamping on a car windscreen.

Brian Graham Lowther, aged 19, of Hillside Avenue, Douglas, is already serving a three-year sentence imposed at the Court of General Gaol Delivery for aggravated burglary.

He admitted the latest charges of common assault and property damage and the 16 weeks will run consecutively to his three-year sentence, which he is due for release from in June 2020.

We previously reported that, on December 10 at 10am, Lowther and Dylan Edward Wiseman, aged 17, of Cronk Grianagh Estate, were on Oak Road in Peel.

They were said to be drunk and approached a man who was on the phone to his wife.

Wiseman was said to have shouted in the man’s face.

The man kept walking but then turned and swore at the pair.

Lowther was then said to have squared up to the man saying: ’What are you going to do?’

He then threw punches at the man’s head before they ended up on the ground wrestling.

Wiseman was then said to have grabbed the man before he broke free and police arrived.

Wiseman was arrested at the scene but Lowther ran off and jumped into a lake before police had to use Pava spray to restrain him. Wiseman has admitted provoking behaviour and is due to be sentenced on April 4.

In a separate incident on September 15 Lowther was seen on Harris Terrace in Douglas punching and kicking cars.

He walked over one car stamping on the windscreen and smashing it.

Damage was caused to the car said to be estimated at £270.

Lowther initially denied that offence but his fingerprints were found on a street sign and CCTV footage showed him committing the crime.

Defence advocate Ian Kermode said of the property damage offence: ’Minutes before Mr Lowther was involved in an altercation with another male. He was very angry and lashed out at vehicles. He accepts he stamped on the windscreen. It was not pre-meditated, it was a temper tantrum.’

Of the assault Mr Kermode said: ’Mr Lowther had been in Peel at a party and was on his way to get a taxi back to Douglas. He was still intoxicated.

’He heard the man on his phone and foolishly got himself involved. Basically his actions were drunken stupidity.’

Magistrates sentenced Lowther to four weeks for criminal damage and 12 weeks for the assault to run consecutively to each other and his current sentence.