A man who claimed to “run Aberystwyth” before he was jailed, has discovered he does not rule Lampeter either.

Ellis McGuiness, 23, was imprisoned in 2016 for attacking three men, after warning them that Aberystwyth was “my town”.

After his release he moved to a flat in High Street, Lampeter, where on 24 July he was involved in two violent confrontations.

Swansea Crown Court heard how at 1.30am he began threatening a 16-year-old boy while holding a metal bar.

The youth ran home and re-emerged with a samurai sword in his hand.

CCTV cameras filmed them squaring up to each other outside the Royal Oak pub on High Street.

At about 5.30pm that day McGuiness again came across the youth and began shouting at him. The juvenile again ran home and returned to the scene holding the sword and McGuiness punched him in the face.

McGuiness admitted possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.

His barrister, John Hipkin, said he had to accept that McGuiness had a bad record for violence.

The punch, he said, had not led to any visible injury. Neither incidents, he added, had led to the weapons being used to inflict injuries.

Judge Keith Thomas told McGuiness he had been responsible for “unpleasant incidents on the streets of Lampeter”.

“Weapons were used by both sides as they threatened each other,” he added.

McGuiness, he said, had at the age of 23 a “dreadful record for violence”.

He was jailed for nine months.

The court heard the youth had been dealt with by a court for juveniles.