A drunk spared jail after sticking a knife six times into another villager in a street fight is now in prison on remand – after taunting his victim just two days after his court escape.

Border Agency worker and former civil servant Stephen Hughes, 34, of Ffordd Haiarn Bach, Penygroes, Caernarfon, had pleaded guilty to wounding and having a knife and received a 15 months jail sentence, suspended for a year, on January 31, with 200 hours unpaid work.

But on February 2 he’d sent a threat by Facebook Messenger in Welsh to his victim Sion Hughes saying he was “a dead man walking”.

Stephen Hughes’ own picture was on the warning which declared : “You’ll never be the same again.”

At a weekend special court at Llandudno Stephen Hughes pleaded guilty to threatening his victim with violence – witness intimidation.

He did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody to appear at Caernarfon crown court March 15 – where he had got the suspended sentence.

Nia Lloyd, prosecuting, said that at first Hughes had claimed several people had access to his mobile phone and that he didn’t send the message.

The sentence for wounding involved an incident in May last year.

Solicitor Simon Sargent, defending, said: “While he admits sending a message he had no intention of carrying out any harm.”