A FORMER Welsh boxing champion who tried to resume his career lost his fight and drank alcohol on returning to Wrexham.

Police were called over a taxi dispute and when David Frazer Walker, 21, refused to give his details he was arrested.

During a struggle he was handcuffed tried to bite a female officer's hand.

Walker, of Yorke Street in Wrexham, admitted assault and resisting a police officer following the incident at Ffordd Powell in Caego on November 4.

Walker, now starting a four year psychology course at Yale College, received a 90 day prison sentence, suspended for a year.

He was ordered to pay £200 compensation with £85 costs and a £115 surcharge.

District judge Gwyn Jones placed him on 15 days rehabilitation, sent him on a building better relationships course and ordered him to do 160 hours unpaid work.

The judge said Walker was, putting it mildly, “vexed and unhappy” with the police and used brute force against one officer.

Prosecutor Rhian Jones told North East Wales Magistrates Court that police were initially called to a report that three members of the public had been assaulted.

Officers attended but Walker refused to give any details apart from his first name.

He was told he was being detained, an attempt was made to handcuff him and he tried to pull away.

Other officers assisted, Walker became more resistant and after a struggle he was taken to the floor.

It was very muddy and there was a lot of sliding about as the officers struggled to keep control.

Walker was face down and as a female officer tried to calm him down he went to bite her.

Miss Jones said when the officer washed mud off her hand she found a red mark where he tried to bite her.

The Mold court heard Walker had a previous conviction last year for assaulting and resisting police and in October was placed on a community order for battery.

Stephen Edwards, defending, said his client was a strong, fit young man who in his younger days was a Welsh champion boxer.

It was accepted he should know better in terms of self-restraint.

The background was that he tried to resume his career after a break of many years from the ring.

He had been in a bout in Leicestershire, he lost, and when he got back to Wrexham he could not make contact with his girlfriend.

He drank alcohol in the town centre and there had been an argument over a taxi.

When police arrived he was initially co-operative but became very awkward when handcuffs were applied.

Mr Edwards said of the college course: “It will enable him to better assess potential volatile situations.”