A DRINKER who bit a landlord and punched a landlady in the face during his birthday celebrations has been spared an immediate trip to jail for the second time.

But Judge Andrew Stubbs QC warned Alex Daniel Havercroft that if he appears before him again, he will be jailed.

And he ensured the 20-year-old violent man will have an alcohol-free Christmas and New Year and be confined to his home every night until mid February.

Havercroft's actions at the Trafalgar Bay pub on Nunnery Lane, York, on August 25 breached a suspended prison sentence imposed for high speed dangerous driving that left his friend with a broken neck, and threatening to stab a neighbour with a sword, York Crown Court heard.

"You are doing your very best to ensure you go to prison," the judge told Havercroft when the 20-year-old appeared before him for the second time. "You must know this is the last chance I am going to give you."

He said that if Havercroft appears before him again, he will jail him.

Havercroft, of Lown Hill, Acomb, pleaded guilty to two charges of assault and one of criminal damage to a pub door.

He was ordered to pay each of his victims £100 compensation, plus £340 prosecution costs, put on an alcohol abstention tag for two months that will sound the alarm if he drinks any alcohol, ordered to do 10 days' rehabilitative activities and 100 hours' unpaid work and observe a three-month curfew from 8am to 7pm.

He was also warned the two-year prison sentence Judge Stubbs gave him in March for causing serious injury by dangerous driving and carrying a sword remains in place until March 2019.

Havercroft's barrister Glenn Parsons said Havercroft was still having difficulty coping with the aftermath of the high speed crash 18 months ago.

"There is an underlying problem there," he said. "It is clearly assisted by him abstaining from alcohol. To help him come to terms with it would benefit society."

Havercroft had been celebrating his birthday when he committed the Trafalgar Bay pub offences.

David Wain, prosecuting, said Havercroft was ordered out of the pub when he become aggressive and broke its no swearing policy.

He went back into its beer garden and when the landlord, joined by the landlady, escorted him out, he started throwing punches, bit the landlord but the teeth only caught his t-shirt, jumped into a waiting taxi and when it refused to drive off on hearing that police had been called, Havercroft jumped out and ran off.