A judge described as a yob a 25-year-old building worker one of whose three family victims in a street incident was a stranger of 74 with Parkinson’s disease.

Jordan Burnett of Ffordd Tegai, Bangor, was jailed for 14 months at Caernarfon crown court after pleading guilty to threatening behaviour and breach of a criminal behaviour order.

A mother of 68 was driving a car which had parked in Bangor city centre, with her husband, who has Parkinson’s and dementia, in the front passenger seat and her son in the back when Burnett looked into the windscreen and shouted and swore at the driver, giving the v-sign.

He then swore at the son and told him to get out, said Karl Scholz, prosecuting.

Police had to use captor spray to detain him because he was so drunk.

Burnett had 44 previous offences including two for affray and the court heard that the family had been badly shaken by what happened.

Mr Scholz said one of the previous convictions relating to striking a woman in her back, smashing her car windscreen and denting the bonnet.

He was caught after a footprint on the car matched the footwear he was wearing.

Defending, Ryan Rothwell said Burnett was ashamed and accepted that a custodial sentence was likely.

He added: “He wants to offer his victims his sincere apologies and wishes to assure them they should not feel anxious about visiting Bangor in future.”

He had only now realised that he had issues when binge drinking.

Judge Rhys Rowlands said it was important that streets of towns and cities were pleasant for law-abiding people to go about their business “and not subject to such drunken, appalling and loutish behaviour.”