A MAN who attacked another person while “in a rage” in Rhyl town centre has been jailed.

Jack Brown, 30, of Broadway Hotel, Mostyn Broadway, Llandudno, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment at Mold Crown Court today (May 3).

This will run consecutively to a 16-month prison sentence he is currently serving, which he received last October in relation to another assault he committed.

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Prosecuting, Oliver King told the court that, on October 22, 2021, Gordon Skade was smoking a cigarette outside a Rhyl bar at about 9pm when he noticed Brown across the road being aggressive to numerous females.

He crossed the road, approached Brown, and asked him to “leave it”; after which, the defendant seemed to “calm down”, so Mr Skade returned to the bar he had been at.

But when Brown became abusive to the females again, Mr Skade decided to go back towards him, intending to calm him down.

Brown saw him approaching, and the two met in the middle of the road, where he was repeatedly told by Mr Skade that he should “leave it and go home”.

Mr Skade was then punched by Brown to the nose, and fell to the floor, landing on the back of his head on the road.

Dazed, he managed to get back to his feet, only for Brown to get hold of him, and overpower him after the they began to grapple.

Brown, by now “in a rage”, put Mr Skade back to the floor, punched him to the face, kicked him to the abdomen, and stamped on his left calf.

It appeared that Mr Skade then momentarily lost consciousness, as he said next recalled seeing a crowd gather around him.

His injuries included a “nasty cut to the back of the head”.

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A witness said that, even though both men were “in each other’s faces”, Brown was the aggressor, with others saying that they had seen him behaving “erratically” and offering to fight people.

After the assault, Brown fled the scene, but was named by somebody who recognised him, and arrested on Water Street; a short distance from High Street, where the attack took place.

His clothing was seized from him upon his arrest, and Mr Skade’s blood was found on Brown’s left trainer and polo shirt.

Mr Skade said the assault left him with a sore ankle and ribs, and that at the time, it affected his relationships with both his girlfriend and his mother.

He said that he “didn’t want to go out” or return to Rhyl after this incident, and would repeatedly have dreams about the attack.

Defending, Simon Killeen said Brown, who had 32 previous convictions for 60 offences, is a “hard-working man when he’s not drunk”.

Since being jailed in October, Brown has put his skills as a chef to use, obtaining a job in his prison’s kitchen.

He will also have opportunity to return to work as a chef at the Premier Inn hotel in Llandudno upon his release.

A father to a “severely autistic” child, Brown was said to have some hope yet of being “a useful member of society, and a useful father to his disabled son”.

Sentencing, Judge Rhys Rowlands told Brown there was “no justification” for his reaction to Mr Skade, a “helpless” and “vulnerable” man.

Brown will also pay a victim surcharge upon his release.

Judge Rowlands told Brown: “It cannot be said to be, in any way, out of character. There is absolutely no alternative to a further term of imprisonment.

“There are, I’m afraid, at present, no realistic prospects of rehabilitation in your case.”