A drunk who attacked his wife for the fourth time was told by a judge: "Enough is enough."

Dean Cyll, 44, of Council Street in Llay was jailed for two years after he admitted unlawfully wounding his wife Ceri Cyll.

Mold Crown Court heard Cyll had picked up a vase and hurled it at his wife.

It smashed and caused a deep cut to the ear which needed six stitches and the wound bled profusely.

Judge Niclas Parry told him: “Enough is enough.

“By my calculation this is the fourth time that your wife has been subjected to violence.

“All this occurred over a 10-year period.”

Judge Parry said in 2017 Cyll had been given a remarkable opportunity by the court of a suspended sentence, but once again in drink he had resorted to violence.

He had used the vase as a weapon and a serious injury had been caused.

Cyll, said the judge, had a quite appalling record which involved a number of offences against his wife.

Judge Parry said he accepted there had been an element of provocation but Cyll had acted under the influence of alcohol.

Cyll was jailed for 21 months for the offence and was ordered to serve three months consecutively from an earlier suspended prison sentence.

An indefinite restraining order was made under which he is not to contact his wife or go to her home or place or work.

Prosecutor David Mainstone said on the afternoon of February 12 the couple had been arguing and were shouting at each other.

Eventually the situation calmed down and Cyll left.

But he returned at 10pm and there was a further argument in the bedroom.

He picked up a vase from the landing and threw it at her. It caused a wound to the ear which needed six stitches and which bled profusely. There was also a second more superficial cut.

Interviewed, he denied wounding and blamed her for being the aggressor.

In a victim impact statement Mrs Cyll said it was feared there would be permanent scarring.

She was disgusted by photographs of her ear injury.

Sometimes she felt down and sometimes angry that Cyll had done it to his wife.

It was his doing and she did not deserve to be treated like that, she said.

Barrister Jo Maxwell, defending, said her client was very sorry for the hurt he had caused to his wife and family.

He had shown genuine remorse, adopted a realistic approach to sentencing and was not a man without hope.

She said Cyll had completed a construction industry qualification while in custody.

He had a job available to him on his release as a taxi driver and there was alternative accommodation available to him.

She added Cyll could not get away from his previous convictions and he hoped the future would be very different for him and his family.

He had in the past completed a “building better relationships course”.

The judge commented: “That was a success, wasn’t it!”