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A thug who beat up his girlfriend twice in less than an hour has been locked up in jail.

Christopher Lee Camilleri admitted two charges of assault when he appeared before magistrates at Caernarfon.

The 27-year-old, of Glan Menai, Treborth near Bangor , had appeared in court last month charged with assaulting the same woman, and been given a community order.

Yesterday he was jailed for 12 weeks.

Bench chairman Peter Lunt Williams said: "We have looked at what has been said and believe the custody threshold has been crossed.

"You assaulted a victim who we believe to be vulnerable."

Diane Williams, prosecuting, said at about 4pm on Easter Sunday police received a call from a woman at a bar in Bangor, reporting she had just seen a woman being assaulted.

"She told officers she had seen a man slam the woman's head into a wall. They had then walked in the direction of the Varsity before returning to the Fat Cat," she said.

Police officers approached the couple and Camilleri claimed to have done nothing wrong.

The second incident occurred when another witness saw the pair walk into Caellepa and the man was said to have been acting aggressively towards the woman and had kicked her in the small of her back as she went down a flight of stairs.

Ms Williams said the woman, Davina Scott, had not made a formal complaint, and during interview Camilleri told officers they were "just playing about".

Defence solicitor Tudor Owen asked the magistrates to give Camilleri credit for his guilty plea.

"There are issues arising from the incident which he could have exploited but he has accepted his guilt," he said.

Mr Owen urged the court to impose a suspended sentence and to allow the community order to continue.

In addition to the jail sentence, Camilleri was ordered to pay £200 costs. The court ordered the community order impost in March be revoked.