A 31-year-old man has been locked up for two drunken episodes of violence.

A judge told Michael Blake he was “a thoroughly decent man” when sober.

Blake, of Buttershaw Drive, Buttershaw, Bradford, admitted battery in breach of a suspended jail term imposed for hitting a man over the head with a baseball bat last year.

He was jailed for three months at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

Blake was sentenced to a four-month suspended jail term in July last year for attacking a man with a bat outside a petrol station on January 24, 2011.

He pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to his victim who needed five stitches to a head cut.

On February 12 this year, Blake committed battery on a man he was sharing a taxi with after a row over the fare. He pushed him out and punched him in the head.

Blake’s barrister, Nick Worsley, said he was a hardworking man who cared for his young daughter. He did not go out often and when he did he drank too much.