AN 'INCREDIBLY aggressive' Chepstow man who assaulted three people during a 'spree of violence' has walked free from court - but will be under house arrest every night for the next eight months.

Painter and decorator Peter Wright, aged 24, hit two of his victims outside Harry's Bar in Lydney, Gloucestershire with a brick and punched the third, Gloucester Crown Court was told.

Wright, of Channel View, Bulwark, who has previous convictions for violence, admitted common assaults on Aaron Goddard and Callum Power on November 9, of last year, and assaulting Owain Davies causing him actual bodily harm on the same date.

He was sentenced to fourteen months imprisonment suspended for two years, placed under supervision for a year and ordered to undergo a nine months alcohol abstinence course.

Judge Jamie Tabor QC ordered him to pay Mr Goddard and Mr Power £100 compensation each and £200 to Mr Davies. He also ordered him to pay £250 costs.

And he placed him on a tagged curfew from 8pm to 6am Monday to Thursday and 6pm to 6am from Friday to Sunday.

The judge warned Wright to stop drinking completely or risk committing another much more serious offence of violence which could land him with a life sentence.

Prosecutor Greg Gordon said Wright embarked on 'a spree of violence.' He told the court Mr Goddard was punched to the face inside Harry's Bar in an 'unprovoked assault.' 

He said there was a struggle in which Mr Goddard subdued the defendant with others and then Wright was taken outside by doormen. 

The court heard Mr Power was on his way to buy cigarettes when he saw the defendant and another man who were both holding bricks. He turned his back to them and immediately received a blow to the head. 

Mr Gordon said only the defendant was close enough to have hit Mr Power.

He said: "It was not as hard a blow as it could have been but it was certainly enough to cause him shock and disorientation and he left the scene as soon as he could."

The third victim Mr Davies was walking away from an argument in the street when he received a heavy blow to the left side of his face by the defendant, again with a brick. This left Mr Davies with a very visible lump and bruise to the left side of his face.

Mr Gordon said:"The defendant says he does not remember much of what happened that night."

The court heard that since the offences Wright has been to prison for earlier crimes - and has also received a suspended sentence for subsequent offences.

Judge Tabor said a probation report showed Wright had been doing well since the suspended sentence was imposed but his drinking was still an area for concern. 

"He says he is now abstinent but 15 pints at the weekend doesn't strike me as abstinent." said the judge. 

Steve Young, defending, said Wright is a very different person when drunk but it seemed to be making real efforts now to address his alcohol abuse.

Judge Tabor, who described Wright as an 'incredibly aggressive man', told him: "This sort of drunken violence has simply got to stop. You are now a fool. You know what you are doing. 

"These were three nasty acts of violence , two with a weapon, by a man with a number of previous convictions for violence. 

"I would have sent you to prison today but for the fact that you have been in prison in the meanwhile since committing these offences."