Forty-three-year-old Richard Morris Lloyd could face jail if he enters the village of Dwygyfylchi, near Penmaenmawr, in the next two years.

He has also been ordered to stay away from a number of people he traumatised with his unruly behaviour.

And magistrates made an order banning him from drinking alcohol on the streets anywhere in the county of Conwy.

The anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) brought by police was imposed by Prestatyn magistrates on Monday after they heard of a catalogue of incidents perpetrated by Lloyd, who had a girlfriend in the village.

Caravan

In one incident, the court heard, he traumatised a 5-year-old girl by saying he would kill her father.

Noel Kennerley, 32, told the court his family were so afraid of Lloyd that they slept for a time in a caravan at the bottom of the garden to escape the noise of violent bust-ups next door.

Mr Kennerley, who is disabled by a spinal injury, his wife and 5-year-old daughter, had moved into a semi in the village in April 2002.

He told the court he had repeatedly called police because of Lloyd's behaviour.

He said he had been subjected to "countless" incidents of abuse, threats and excessive noise.

The court was told of another incident where Lloyd grabbed a woman who threatened to report him to the RSPCA over his treatment of a cat.

'Lack of regard'

Mr Lloyd opposed the order, but as he did not turn up in court to defend himself the case was heard in his absence.

Solicitor Huw Edwards, for Lloyd, said he claimed to be ill and that he was due to see a doctor.

But the magistrates refused to adjourn the case.

Granting the ASBO, the court chairman said Lloyd had a total lack of regard for the existing law and authority and an unwillingness to behave appropriately.

The order prohibits him from entering the village, where he had been living with his partner, for two years.