A MAN only just avoided going straight to jail after he assaulted a guest and staff at a five-star hotel.
Andrew John Williams, 54, was handed a suspended prison sentence following the attacks at Newport’s Celtic Manor Resort last summer.
The city’s magistrates’ court heard how the defendant carried out a “sustained assault on persons in their workplace and also on a guest in a public area”.
Williams, of Cardiff Road, Newport, pleaded guilty to three counts of assault by beating carried out on August 2, 2020.
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He was jailed for 10 weeks, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete a 10-day rehabilitation activity requirement.
Williams was ordered to pay £500 in compensation between his three victims as well as £135 towards the prosecution costs and a £128 surcharge.
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