A MAN has been jailed after hurling a bottle of wine at a Sainsbury's store manager who had asked him to take his dog outside.

Craig Beckett, of Rolleston Street in the town centre, handed himself in at Stockton Heath police station after officers launched an appeal to find him in the Warrington Guardian.

Warrington Crown Court heard on Monday the victim of the attack, Mark Murphy, had blood streaming down his face after the bottle bounced off his head and smashed a store window at the Sainsbury's Local store on London Road in Stockton Heath.

He was first asked to leave on December 14 by a female member of staff, as it was company policy to only allow guide dogs in store, but threatened to smash the bottle.

The manager was called before what was described by the judge as a 'Mexican stand-off' as 32-year-old Beckett said he would leave once he had bought the bottle of wine while Mr Murphy asked him to take the dog outside first.

Paulinus Barnes, prosecuting, said: "Meanwhile the dog had taken a bar of chocolate from the shelves underneath the tills and began to eat it which Mr Murphy explained was the reason why dogs are not allowed in store.

"The defendant became increasingly aggressive and said 'Don't make me do something I will regret in the morning'.

"Two young males offered to take the dog outside for him but Beckett turned around and said 'What are you looking at?'"

Beckett was described as bouncing on the balls of his feet and after being told he was not going to be served at all, he gripped the bottle of wine by the neck and launched it towards Mr Murphy, who later needed six stitches for the wound at Warrington Hospital.

The court heard another member of staff was left so traumatised by the incident she resigned from her job after working there for a number of years.

Beckett, who had been given community orders in the past for being drunk and disorderly, gave a no comment interview to officers but pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm at a previous hearing.

John Banasko, defending, said 'red mist had descended' when Beckett was asked to go outside but he had shown 'genuine remorse' and 'courage' to plead guilty.

Judge Michael Hayton said: "There's much to be said positively about you as you're a hard-working man with a thoroughly decent family who has gone off the rails at some point in the past and fallen in with the wrong group of people involving yourself with drink and drugs.

"It was a moment of stupidity, drunken foolishness and madness which means you have to be deprived of your liberty for some time.

"I hope you have the maturity to put it behind you on your release."

He was handed a three year and four months prison sentence.