A 27-year-old Cleobury Mortimer man who attacked a restaurant owner in a dispute over a former girlfriend has been jailed for three months.

Adam Moorcroft had drunk up to eight cans of lager prior to the assault outside the Kings Arms pub in Cleobury Mortimer in February this year.

Victim Robert Smith was left with blood pouring from his nose and swelling and bruising to his left eye.

Magistrates at Telford also imposed a 12 month restraining order on Moorcroft not to contact Mr Smith.

And the court imposed an indefinite anti-social behaviour order banning Moorcroft from being drunk or consuming alcohol in public, not to enter premises from which his is banned and not to use threatening language.

A two-year restraining order preventing Moorcroft having contact with Miss Emma Long was already in place.

At a previous hearing Moorcroft, of Childe Road, Cleobury Mortimer, admitted charges of threatening behaviour and assault.

Magistrates heard that Mr Smith, a partner in The Exchange Brasserie, was confronted by Moorcroft who pushed him and grabbed his T-shirt and pulled his head downwards before kneeing him in the face.

Earlier the same day Moorcroft had got into Mr Smith's flat above the brasserie in High Street where he told the victim to keep away from Donna Keegan, his former girlfriend.

Later Moorcroft went to the Spar shop where he asked part-time assistant Miss Long, who he knew from school, if he could take her for a meal.

She decided to serve Moorcroft, who was banned from the store, because he seemed agitated and politely turned down his invitation.

The defendant then made a rude and suggestive remark towards Miss Long which was heard by other customers.

Mr Stephen Scully, for Moorcroft, had said his client had been drinking and had seen Mr Smith at the pub by chance and accepted there was a heated exchange and he had lost his temper.