Richard Morris Lloyd, 43, was given an anti-social behaviour order banning him from the village of Dwygyfylchi in Conwy last month.

Magistrates at Llandudno were told on Thursday that police were alerted he was back in the village last week by a couple who were woken up just before 0500 BST by a loud bang and a woman screaming.

The court was told Lloyd was heard swearing and was then seen leaving a house at Dwygyfylchi where he had lived previously with his partner.

Lloyd, who is unemployed and of no fixed abode, admitted breaching the order.

Stormy relationship

The court heard he was arrested on Tuesday after police found him hiding in a kitchen cupboard at his mother's home.

Defence solicitor, Huw Edwards, said Lloyd had been in a stormy relationship and the volatility had resulted in the disturbance of villagers.

Mr Edwards said his partner had "time and time and time again" accused Lloyd of assaulting her and then withdrawn her complaints to police.

But she kept "hassling" Lloyd because she wanted to be with him, said Mr Edwards.

Jailing him, the court chairman told Lloyd his previous record showed a total disregard for court orders.

North Wales Police launched a search for Lloyd on 8 July after hearing he may have visited his girlfriend's house in the village in the early hours of the morning.

The anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) brought by police was imposed by Prestatyn magistrates last month after they heard of a catalogue of incidents perpetrated by Mr Lloyd.

'Nightmare'

When the two-year ASBO was imposed, a next door neighbour of Lloyd told magistrates how his move to Dwygyfylchi had turned into a nightmare.

Disabled Noel Kennerley, 32, said he, his wife and their five-year-old daughter had been forced to sleep in a caravan in their garden to escape the noise of violent bust-ups.

Prestatyn magistrates had ordered Mr Lloyd to stay away from a number of people he traumatised with his unruly behaviour.