A MAN who threw a headbutt at a house party and robbed alcohol from a newsagent has been jailed for five years.

Karl Scorgie, of Thornhill Road in Brighouse, appeared in Bradford Crown Court on two offences of robbery today.

The 24-year-old went to the house party, containing people he did not know, on May 14 of last year.

Those in attendance were drinking alcohol and taking cocaine before a disagreement took place at 2am the following morning.

With a knife in his possession, Scorgie threatened the victim with a rolling pin as he asked for money.

He then asked for the victim's phone to be signed out of iCloud so he could steal it and make it untraceable.

The defendant also headbutted the victim, leaving a 7cm cut which required hospital treatment.

Scorgie was arrested on May 26, charged on November 18 and convicted of the crime at a trial in York earlier this year.

The second offence took place at Pennywise Newsagents in Brighouse on the morning of December 29, 2021.

Scorgie and another unknown male entered the shop at around 9am and approached the counter with a set of Carling cans.

The unknown male demanded the shopkeeper to open the till - and he complied.

Notes and coins were taken along with three bottles of vodka and 12 cans of Carling.

Scorgie was arrested on the same day, charged the next but only pleaded guilty to robbery on July 25. He has been in custody since the arrest.

Recorder Christopher Williams accepts that Scorgie played a lesser role but could not look past the fear and anxiety it caused those in the shop.

In mitigation, the court was told how Scorgie had a difficult childhood suffering from physical abuse from his father.

Scorgie has no qualifications and has struggled to hold down a job throughout his life.

At 18, his father died which turned him to drugs and led to him taking cocaine every day.

He has been offending since 2017 and in 2020 Scorgie was involved in a night-time robbery at a cash machine at the Co-op in Rastrick.

Scorgie was sentenced to four years in prison for the first offence.

This will run consecutively with the one year that was imposed for the shop robbery.

Scorgie was also subjected to a restraining order.

He will only serve half of the five years in prison.