A TEENAGER was bitten on the buttock when a football club committee member set his Alsatian on him, a court heard.

The victim, 16-year-old Richard Clayton, had done nothing wrong, and received a three-centimetre cut, prosecutor Joan Campbell told Cardiff crown court.

Michael Frost, aged 40, of Ael-y-Bryn Terrace, Treowen, Newbridge, was sentenced to a community punishment order for 100 hours and ordered to pay the victim £250 compensation after pleading guilty to a charge of causing actual bodily harm.

Miss Campbell said that on May 26 a group of youths were camping on the training field of Treowen Stars football club.

Richard Clayton went there to see a friend, one of the campers, and spent about half an hour with him.

As he was leaving he was confronted by Frost who had with him his Alsatian, Heidi, who was not on a lead.

He grabbed Clayton and wrongly accused him of being responsible for breaking into his car.

A struggle followed, said Miss Campbell, during which Frost told his dog to attack Richard Clayton, which it did, biting him on the left buttock.

Frost was arrested on July 6 and told the police he was concerned because there had been trouble in the area.

He denied setting the dog on Richard Clayton.

Leighton Hughes, defending, said: "Frost has shown significant remorse." Passing sentence, Judge David Wyn Morgan said Frost had shown a great degree of concern, as well as a degree of anger.

But he added: "You set your Alsatian on a young man who had done nothing wrong... That was unforgivable."