A violent thug who committed two assaults has now been jailed.

Billy Robert Sumner, of Circular Road, Peel, appeared before the Deputy High Bailiff on Friday, when he admitted committing two assaults in just over two months.

He also pleaded guilty to charges of property damage and being drunk and disorderly and was sent to prison for a total of 26 weeks.

The 22-year-old was also banned from entering licensed premises and buying or being sold alcohol for six months.

We previously reported how, on April 20, police were called to a domestic incident at Westmoreland Road in Douglas.

Sumner’s then partner told police they had argued and he had thrown her mobile phone out of a window, causing its screen to smash.

The woman said there had been some 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 headbutted him in the face causing a cut to the bridge of his nose.

Sumner was arrested and charged with common assault.

In a second incident, on June 15, Sumner was attending a wake at the Colby Glen Hotel in Colby.

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

He was asked not to do so by the pub’s assistant manager but Sumner swore at him.

Then he was asked to leave the pub but Sumner squared up to the assistant manager saying: ’Just wait till you’re out of here. I’ll tear your throat out. I’ll bite your jugular. I’ll kill you.’

Sumner was arrested later after being found walking near the pub and charged with being drunk and disorderly.

A third incident happened on June 29, in Lake Lane in Peel.

Sumner and two other men, were involved in an argument with another man.

Sumner admitted pushing the man causing him to fall to the ground and was charged with common assault.

A witness stated that she saw Sumner kicking the man while he was on the ground, which Sumner denied, but she was unable to attend court for a Newton Hearing to settle the disputed facts.

Defence advocate Darren Taubitz entered a basis of plea for the first offence 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 on her son had been reckless and had happened during the struggle.

A basis of plea was also entered to the assault on June 29, in which Sumner admitted pushing the man, but that it was not a hard push and that the victim was intoxicated so this had contributed to him falling over easily. Sumner said he was responding to a comment from the man.

Mr Taubitz told the court that his client had been in a ’toxic’ relationship which had now ended when the first offences had occurred in April.

Regarding the incident at the Colby Glen pub, the advocate said that Sumner was attending a wake after the tragic death of his friend.

’Quite understandably, it was an emotionally-charged day,’ said Mr Taubitz. ’He had three or four drinks and had not eaten.

’Mr Sumner is only 22 and there is perhaps a lack of maturity for his age. He has got a lot on his plate.

’He has worked with the Drug and Alcohol Team but has been prone to binges. I think the death of his friend has affected him. He is someone who I suggest could benefit from counselling.’

The court heard that Sumner has spent about eight weeks on remand.

Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes sentenced Sumner to eight weeks’ custody for the property damage and 10 weeks for the common assault, which both took place on April 20, to run concurrently.

He was sentenced to 10 weeks’ custody for the common assault on June 29 to run consecutively with no separate penalty made for the drunk and disorderly offence.