A MAN who was given a suspended sentence for attacking the manager of The Charcoal Grill in Calne then went on to commit another assault when he attacked a customer after following him out of the same takeaway.

Levi Waters was spared an immediate jail term in June last year, after telling a judge that he had given up drinking following the drunken assault.

But less than a year later the 23-year-old was involved in two late night assaults after being out drinking again.

Charles Thomas, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court on Monday (nov 28) that Waters was given an eight-month jail term suspended for two years in June 2015.

But in the early hours of May 14 he was in the Black Horse in Chippenham when he was spotted by a man who thought he had been pestering his girlfriend.

The other man told him 'Leave my missus alone,' and walked off, but soon after received a tap on the shoulder and turned to be head butted by Waters.

His right eyebrow was split open, leaving a four centimetre wound which needed to be glued back together.

Waters, of George Close, Calne, was arrested and remained silent when questioned. Two weeks later he was out drinking in the Wheatsheaf in Calne.

After accusing another drinker of staring at him he went to The Charcoal Grill, where the other man was getting some food.

Mr Thomas said the woman working in the shop was so concerned she walked out with the other customer.

But soon after she left him Waters approached and punched him to the left ear, knocking him to the ground.

After he was arrested he told police that if people showed him respect he would do the same to them.

In the initial incident, which led to the suspended sentence, he and another man set on the Charcoal Grill's manager.

The victim had come out to remonstrate when a window was broken by the pair, who were fighting, and they turned on him.

Waters pleaded guilty actual bodily harm and common assault.

Cathy Thornton, defending, said her client had a terrible background and has learning difficulties which were not picked up in childhood.

She said he had tried to find work but drink and drugs had affected his behaviour and he had poor emotional control.

Jailing him for 18 months Judge Peter Blair QC said "The courts have given you a number of sentences in the recent past that have been designed to give you the opportunity of sorting some of these problems out.

"It is regrettable that you have not really been in a position, or sufficiently motivated, it seems, to comply with all that is expected of you.

"The fact of the matter us you come before me today for two more assaults in May this year when you were subject to a suspended sentence for an assault."