A 48-year-old Blaenau Ffestiniog man shouted in protest at the judge after being sent to prison for 16 months for racially abusing a Welsh teenager and also the Chinese owners of a local takeaway.

David Mattox had pleaded guilty at Caernarfon Crown Court to two public order offences, one of them racially aggravated, and also to breaching his ASBO – for the seventh time.

The drunken incidents happened at the Golden Mountain takeaway on 17 November, a day after he’d been released from prison for anoth­er breach.

Ffion Tomos, prosecuting on Thursday, described how Mattox had been “ranting and raving” in the takeaway.

When he returned to complain about a beef curry another was placed on the counter for him, but he thrust it off, narrowly missing one of the owners who was holding a young baby in her arms.

He called a 16-year-old girl working behind the counter a “Welsh ****”, threatened to “smash [her] head in” and frightened her.

Mattox shouted that he wasn’t scared of the police or going back to jail and said the Chinese owners “should ****ing learn English”.

Barrister Dafydd Roberts, defending, said it was clear that custody didn’t work and suggested there could be a mental health issue linked to his alcohol addiction.

“He wants me to say he wishes to address it and receive help,” said Mr Roberts.

Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins told Mattox, of Church Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, that his comments had been lewd and threatening, culminating in a diatribe against the Chinese owners and the Welsh empl­oyee.

He imposed a restraining order which bans him from the takeaway or from contact with the owners or two schoolgirls whom he had scared.