AN Aberystwyth teenager who spat blood at a doorman and police officer said that he would kill them and didn’t care if he “went to prison for murder”.

Magistrates heard that Billy Valentine, 18, had threatened and abused door staff and police officers during the incident at the Academy in the early hours of 29 May and, after suffering a self-inflicted injury that cut his head, he spat blood at a doorman helping out Academy staff.

Valentine, of the flat above the Vale of Rheidol, 1 Terrace Road, pleaded guilty to assaulting doorman Nigel Bowden, assaulting PC Foale and disorderly behaviour during the incident.

Prosecutor Rhian Jones said Mr Bowden was alerted to an incident outside the Academy at around 1.15am and went over to help door staff there.

They were struggling with Valentine, whose face was covered in blood because of an injury he suffered after headbutting a door and, while Mr Bowden restrained Valentine, Valentine turned his head and spat at Mr Bowden hitting him in the face with spittle and blood, with some of it going in his mouth.

Police officers attended, but Valentine started shouting threats, telling officers and passers-by that he would “hammer you all”.

At one point he told police officers to let him “look at your face” as he was going to kill them and would go to prison for murder.

He then spat at PC Foale, hitting him on his trousers.

Valentine calmed down at hospital where he was treated for his head wound, and in an interview said he couldn’t remember a lot of what had happened, but had thought a doorman had broken his phone and had gone to remonstrate with them and “saw red”.

Defence solicitor Alison Mathias said Valentine had recently lost a close friend and had struggled with the bereavement which was why he had gone out and drunk so much on that night.

She said Valentine regretted his behaviour and said he had been “upset” when he saw the statements of people involved.

Ms Mathias said Valentine accepted that he had lost his temper when outside the Academy and had reacted badly and regretted his behaviour and what he had said to both police officers and passers-by.

Valentine had recently started receiving help to deal with his bereavement issues and Ms Mathias said that may mean a community order may not be suitable.

Magistrates adjourned sentencing to allow a pre-sentence report to be completed.

Valentine will now be sentenced on 6 September.