Dylan Gayle-Jones was sentenced for affray at Swansea Crown Court
A FORMER sailor who drunkenly wielded a metal pole at nightclub door staff just weeks after being given a suspended sentence for head-butting a man in a nightclub has been told he will not get a third chance.
Swansea Crown Court heard that Dylan Gayle-Jones was on a night out in Swansea when his friend was "manhandled" out of the Peppermint bar on Wind Street in the early hours of March 28.
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The 19-year-old took umbrage at what had happened and picked up a metal pole — the kind used to hold rope barriers outside premises — and began smashing it on the pavement in front of the door staff.
Within seconds of him wielding the pole he was taken to the ground by police officers and arrested.
Gayle-Jones, of Peniel Green Road, Llansamlet, had previously pleaded guilty to affray when he appeared in the dock for sentencing.
The court heard that just a matter of weeks before the Wind Street incident the teenager had been given a suspended sentence for an offence of causing actual bodily harm after he butted a man in the face on the dance floor of Swansea's Sin City club, knocking his victim to the floor and loosening his two front teeth.
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Jon Tarrant, for Gayle-Jones, said his client — who spent two years in the Royal Navy — had a problem with alcohol and a tendency to become "hot-headed when in drink".
The advocate added that the defendant had been "somewhat emotional" about the way his friend had been treated on the night in question, but was remorseful for what he had done.
Judge Paul Thomas said that Gayle-Jones getting involved in the late-night incident so soon after being given a suspended sentence was "stupid bordering on the incredible".
The judge said the defendant needed to grow-up in his attitude to alcohol, adding that if he "couldn't handle it, he shouldn't touch it".
For the breach of the suspended sentence Gayle-Jones was given 150 hours of unpaid work in the community, and for the affray he was sentenced to four months in prison suspended for 12 months and told to complete a rehabilitation course to address his temper issues.
The judge told the defendant that if he committed another offence in the 12 months "I will personally send you to prison" — adding "I don't give third chances".
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