A 25-year-old man accused of pushing a student from behind and then hitting him with a bottle to the back of the head was jailed for 16 months on Friday.

Caernarfon crown court heard a 4 to 5cms cut had to be glued. The attack happened when a Liverpool university student was home in North Wales and on a night out at Bangor last January.

 Myles Wilson, defending, said James Jones, of Belmont Street, Bangor, an apprentice joiner, felt “great shame and remorse.” He came from a good family.

 Mr Wilson remarked: "He has got some insight. He knows when he drinks too much he struggles to control himself. Since the incident he’s not gone out partly because he’s banned by the Pubwatch scheme.”

 Judge Huw Rees told Jones, who admitted assault causing actual bodily harm, it was a “cowardly” attack. The victim Tobias Hughes, 21, described it as a “dreadful scary experience.”

Judge Rees said Jones previously received a suspended sentence. “You had your warning. You are therefore not a stranger to violence,”’ Judge Rees told him.