TWO men who attacked a father for asking them to be quiet have been jailed for more than a year.

Liam Paul Calpin, 23, of Tuke Avenue in Tang Hall, and Dean Smith, 19, of Richmond Street off Hallfield Road, appeared before York Crown Court on Thursday charged with actual bodily harm after they punched and kicked a man in a sustained attack in Osbaldwick.

The court heard the pair were at a property in the village in June last year, and when loud noises and shouting continued until almost 1am, the male neighbour - who was at home with his wife and two-year-old daughter - saw the defendants being ushered away from the property.

As shouting continued for about 30 minutes, the court heard he left his property and asked them to keep it down, at which point he was punched by Smith.

Calpin apparently tried to stop the attack before joining in, and the victim grappled with the pair before they fell into a hedge. When he got up again, he was punched to the ground then kicked in the back, ribs and kidneys.

The victim suffered bruising and swelling to his face, pains in his chest and right hand side, suspected fractured ribs and pain passing water, and said his family were so distraught by the attack they had since moved.

Robin Frieze, for Smith, said his client had "a worrying record for violence", but the attack "does not appear to have gone on for very long" and the "injuries would not normally be categorised as great harm".

Alex Minari, for Calpin, said his client had an "inability to express himself clearly", and viewed the incident as the victim's fault for approaching them. He said Calpin had initially become involved as "peacemaker", but was "clearly a man who has difficulties with alcohol", and accepted what happened was "disgraceful and went beyond any appropriate response".

Sentencing both men to one year and four months in prison, Judge Neil Davey QC called the incident "a sustained assault", and said "there are no mitigating factors other than your pleas of guilty".