A 41-year-old man who beat up his ex-partner in the square at Blaenau Ffestiniog, injuring her nose and cheek and giving her black eyes has been jailed for 14 months.

Mark Anderson of Penybryn, Ffestiniog, had pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm to Cari Wyn Evans, 28, mother of his two children and the same victim he had also attacked with a rolling pin last December, then receiving a suspended sentence.

Judge Huw Rees included in the sentence at Caernarfon crown court on Friday six months of the 32-week suspended term.

The judge said that in the latest attack on 14 October Anderson had punched and slapped his victim in Oakeley Square, acting as a bully against a vulnerable victim.

He tried to drag her back by her coat and, when she fled to her sister’s, he persistently rang the doorbell.

When arrested he “told a barefaced lie” to police that he hadn’t seen his victim that day.

The judge imposed a five-year restraining order which bans Anderson from approaching his former partner.

Simon Killeen, defending, said Anderson was a self-employed stonemason. He had been offered employment as a stonemason on his release and now had a new flat at Llan Ffestiniog.

Judge Rees said Anderson had degraded his victim and himself by the latest assault “acting as a bully to this woman.”