A JEALOUS drink and drug addict who bit his then girlfriend and assaulted a man he thought she was seeing behind his back with a stick has been jailed.

Thomas Hanslip, 32, had admitted two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm, assault causing grievous bodily harm, and assault by beating.

Prosecutor Duncan Ritchie told Bradford Crown Court that on June 16 last year, Hanslip, of Central Avenue, Shipley, had attacked Andrew Garner, who he suspected was seeing his partner, Donna Nelson.

He smashed a bottle on his temple, before confronting him in the street in Cliffe Terrace, Baildon, hitting him three or four times with a piece of wood.

Mr Garner needed 28 stitches and was kept in hospital for two days suffering from a minor bleed on the brain.

Hanslip was on bail for those offences when he then assaulted Miss Nelson during an argument on April 15 this year.

After accusing her of cheating, he punched her in the head, dragged her out of his flat by the hair, and bit her around the right eye.

Kevin Walker, mitigating for Hanslip, said his client had "substantial problems" with alcohol and drugs which stoked his jealousy.

Jailing him for two years and eight months, Judge Robert Bartfield described the assault on Mr Garner as a "very serious attack".

Referring to the confrontation with Miss Nelson, the judge told him: "You accused her of cheating for the umpteenth time and punched her in the head.

"You're a man of over six foot and she's a small woman. You're a coward."