A DEESIDE man who terrorised his parents and sister has been sent to prison for 20 months.

Michael Edwards was in breach of a restraining order and previously had received a suspended prison sentence in June 2016 after attacking his parents in the family home in Hawarden.

But after falling in with the wrong crowd he turned to drink again and went round to their home where he headbutted the door and threatened his sister.

Judge David Hale told him at Mold Crown Court: “When you drink you terrorise your parents and sister.

"The courts have tried to help you, but now you have to pay the price.

"You know this behaviour is completely unacceptable.”

The court heard the restraining order had been imposed on Edwards in 2016 after the assault on his parents.

His sister, Janet Edwards, was forced to move into the family home to safeguard them and she said in a statement read out to the court that she felt she was unable to move out as she feared her brother would return to harm them.

“I feel responsible for keeping them safe. I am frightened of my brother appearing at the home address,” she said.

“Michael has been issued with a restraining order, but he has no fear.

"All I want is for Michael to get help with his issues and for my parents to live in peace.

“I just want him to realise the effects he is having on the family.”

Edwards, 33, of Rowden Street, Shotton, admitted breaching a restraining order on May 27.

He initially denied the offence and said he was drinking in a pub in Ewloe on that evening. But defence barrister Anna Pope said that he had turned to drink and drugs again after he was forced to share a house with “people he didn’t wish to associate with”.

As well as punishing him for breaching the restraining order, the judge activated his suspended sentence and ordered him to pay a victim surcharge of £115 once he is released from the 20-month sentence.