When police investigated a report of a fight in Yatton they came across an injured Daniel Nethercott. And in the course of their inquiries they found he had used a police baton to injure a man and had a prohibited air pistol at his home.
The 36-year-old, a caretaker of Stowey Road, pleaded guilty to wounding and possessing an offensive weapon, namely the baton. He also admitted possessing a prohibited weapon, the air pistol.
The recorder Oba Nsugbe handed him an 17-month jail term suspended for 24 months. He told Nethercott: "It is plain you are somebody who suffers from anxiety and other coping difficulties which it is said you keep to yourself. You would have difficulty in coping with an immediate custodial sentence." Nethercott was also handed rehabilitation and alcohol treatment.
