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A drunk father and son tried to smash their way into their local pub by punching and even head-butting glass panels in a door after they were thrown out.

Timothy Mosley, 54, and his 21-year-old son Rhys Mosley were spared jail at Swansea Crown Court on Friday after admitting assault and affray at the Old White Horse pub in the usually quiet village of Pontneddfechan in the Vale of Neath.

Geraint Mabey, the landlord of the pub in Neath’s beautiful “waterfall country”, is trying to get the suspended jail sentences reversed on the grounds they were “too lenient”.

In this video interview with WalesOnline, he described it as the worst moment of his life.

The clip also includes a video taken inside the pub during the terrifying moments the Mosleys were trying to break in.

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Georgina Buckley, prosecuting, said Mr Mabey and his wife Michelle bolted the doors of the Old White Horse last December after throwing out the Mosleys.

She said the father and son had “punched and rugby-tackled” Mr Mabey inside the pub when he asked them to leave because of their increasingly loud behaviour.

The father and son then tried to smash their way back in through the glass panelled door, shouting threats and with Timothy Mosley giving himself a serious arm injury as he punched through glass.

The Mosleys’ attempts to break in were captured on film by a member of staff inside the pub and were shown to sentencing judge Mr Recorder Peter Griffiths QC.

'I'm going to kill you'

In the short film, one of the Mosleys could be heard screaming among other threats: “Get out here... I’m going to f*****g kill you!”

Mr Mabey was left with a haemorrhage to his eye and cuts after the earlier assault on him inside the pub.

Recorder Griffiths said on viewing the film: “This was appalling conduct which must have been terrifying for people inside the pub, not least the landlord’s wife.”

Ms Buckley said the police arrived and arrested the father and son who each later pleaded guilty to charges of common assault and affray.

Ex miner Timothy Mosley, of Brynawel, Ystradfellte Road, Pontneddfechan, who now works for Tower Regeneration, was regarded by the recorder as the “leading light” in the attempt to get into the locked pub.

He was given a total of 12 months in jail suspended for a year and was ordered to do 80 hours’ unpaid community work.

His son Rhys Mosley, of Mill Terrace, Neath, who has his own landscape gardening business, and who turned 21 on Friday, was given a nine month sentence also suspended for a year with 80 hours unpaid work.

Ms Buckley said the cost of replacing windows smashed at the pub in the attack was estimated at £2,922 but the Recorder ordered the Mosleys each to pay £750 each towards the cost of repairs and he ordered each of them to pay £250 to Mr Mabey for his injuries.

Catrin Jenkins, defending the Mosleys, said they were both ashamed of their actions.

She said: “This was carried out in drink. I know that’s not a defence but they were influenced by the amount of alcohol they had drunk.”

The recorder said to Ms Jenkins: “It seems the elder of your two clients completely lost his senses and one shudders to think what might have happened had he got through those doors.”

The court heard Timothy Mosley had a previous conviction for failing to provide a specimen of breath and another for criminal damage but the recorder decided they were so long ago he could treat him as a man of clean character.

Rhys Mosley had no previous convictions, the court heard.

Speaking at his pub after the sentencing hearing, Mr Mabey said: “We are speaking to our solicitors with a view to getting these sentences overturned as we feel they are too lenient and should not have been suspended.

“Anyone who views this film and sees the behaviour of these two will be astonished they did not go to jail.”