A VIOLENT drunk who assaulted a shop worker after brazenly stealing booze may finally end up behind bars.

Kris Davidson was spared jail in June after he launched an unprovoked attack on a friend at a party, leaving him battered and bruised.

Weeks after the suspended sentence was imposed the 24-year-old spat in the face of a police woman as she was trying to arrest him for another matter.

And when he was sent back before a judge in November for not complying with the terms of a suspended sentence he was given yet another chance Now he has admitted assaulting a member of staff at the One Stop shop in Toothill after she confronted him for strolling out with cans of beer and cider.

Nick Barr, prosecuting, told Swindon Magistrates' Court how Davidson went to the store, despite being banned, on Tuesday September 16.

He walked straight to the drink fridge, picked up some cans of lager and left without trying to pay, causing Kelly Brown to follow to ask for them back.

There was then a tug of war and she got some of the beer before he went outside and she went into the stockroom at the rear of the store.

But when she emerged he had returned to take some cider and when she confronted him again he shoved the cans into her arm and then shoved her backwards.

As a result of the assault she suffered soft tissue damage to her right forearm causing pain and pins and needles.

Davidson, of Tintagel Close, Toothill, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft, common assault and being in breach of a suspended sentence.

His solicitor, Mark Glendenning, started telling District Judge Simon Cooper about his client’s alcohol treatment but he was cut short when he was told “I’m not interested, let’s see what view the judge takes of it.”

Judge Cooper said: “I now commit you on a date to be notified by the crown court, you being for the second time in breach of a crown court order.

“I indicate that I ask the probation service to update the presentence report. You will be sentenced in addition for this. I characterise these offences as mean, nasty, unpleasant, and unnecessary.

“How dare you treat the staff at the village shop like that. You are at serious risk of a custodial sentence.’’ Davidson was put on an eight month jail term suspended for 18 months in June after admitting actual bodily harm which took place the previous November.

The month before he was sentenced in the crown court he was put on a community order by magistrates for possessing a bladed article.