A CARMARTHENSHIRE man has admitted assaulting three police officers outside a kebab house, while subject to a community order for the same offence.

Christopher Price pleaded guilty to assaulting the three officers on July 8 on Station Road in Llanelli.

He also admitted a charge of using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of, or provoke, unlawful violence.

Swansea Crown Court heard that Price was subject to community order after he assaulted two officers in Ammanford and one in Llanelli in April, and admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress towards two police officers.

At Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on June 8, he was made the subject of an 18-month community order.

“What is wrong with your client, Mr Singh?,” Judge Huw Rees asked defence counsel David Singh.

The barrister said alcohol was the cause of Price’s offending.

“He’s a completely different person when he’s abstaining from alcohol,” he said.

“And he’s got a girlfriend who supports him. He doesn't deserve a girlfriend,” said Judge Rees.

“He has 55 convictions for 95 offences. It’s unbelievable, he’s only 27.”

Mr Singh said Price, of Cwrt Neville in Llanelli, had not consumed any alcohol since this latest incident, and was currently working for his brother collecting scrap.

He added the defendant would welcome an alcohol abstinence monitoring requirement.

“He’s subject to a curfew which has had a positive influence on him,” he said.

Judge Rees granted Price bail ahead of a sentencing hearing on September 1.

Addressing the defendant, he said: “What is wrong with you? I don’t understand.

“How would you feel if your mother was walking past that kebab house on Station Road?

“It makes areas like that a no go area.

“You may go to prison for this, and if you do it is well deserved.”