TWO men attacked a passenger when he stopped to remonstrate with them after they threw a bottle at his car.

George Taylor suffered bruising and swelling to his face after he was kicked and punched in a street in Redcar, east Cleveland, in June last year.

He was annoyed when a bottle was thrown at his silver Jaguar car as his wife drove him home after a night out in September, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Mr Taylor asked his wife to stop the car and he got out to speak to Paul Campbell-Murphy and Scott Wood but they attacked him and threatened to kill him.

The victim's wife was hysterical and terrified by the incident, said Catherine Fagan, prosecuting.

A taxi driver stopped and helped Mr Taylor to safety but Campbell-Murphy headed towards the car and told Mrs Taylor he was going to "run blood all over you".

She forced him out of the car with a pool cue, the court heard, but he continued to try to get back into the vehicle and banged on the windows with his fists.

The police arrived but the defendants ran off.

They were later arrested at an address in Redcar following reports of a domestic incident between Campbell-Murphy and his girlfriend.

The 29-year-old, of Harwell Road, Redcar, pleaded guilty to assault and was jailed for 12 months.

Paul Cleasby, mitigating, said his client had been drinking and on prescription drugs when the incident happened.

Wood, 18, of Churchill Drive, Marske, also pleaded guilty to assault and was given 12 months in youth custody.

Campbell-Murphy received another 12 months for burglary after the court heard he stole goods from a pensioner's house in Westmoreland Road, Redcar, in a separate incident.