Two men burst into the home of a Llandysul man and left “covered in blood” after punching and kicking him, a judge heard today.
Dale Cranmer, aged 24, and Patrick Evans, 22, admitted assaulting Aaron Goodyear causing him actual bodily harm.
Ian Wright, prosecuting, told Swansea crown court that Mr Goodyear lived alone in a flat in King Street, Llandysul.
About 10pm on September 20 last year he heard loud banging on the outside door and then the sound of several people running up the stairs towards his flat.
Mr Goodyear locked the door to his home and pinned himself against it as Cranmer and Evans tried to get in.
Mr Wright said they eventually burst in by literally breaking through the door and immediately began punching and kicking Mr Goodyear.
At one stage he was pushed onto a glass coffee table, which broke under his weight, and Evans attacked him with a saucepan.
Mr Goodyear told them he had already telephoned the police and the men ran away.
As they returned to the flats they were living in at the Cilgwyn Hotel in Station Road in nearby Pontwelly, they met up with Mathew Pritchard, who happened to be on the telephone to Evans’ mother Sharon.
He handed the telephone to Evans, who was covered in blood, and heard him admit to the assault.
Mr Wright said that after his arrest Cranmer told police he had not been happy with drugs he had bought from Mr Goodyear and had wanted his money back.
The court heard that at the time of the attack both Cranmer and Evans had been under court orders for previous offending.
Cranmer was jailed for two years and Evans for two years and three months.
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