AN INMATE at HMP Berwyn left a prison officer with a £250 dental bill after smashing his tooth in a revenge attack, a court heard.

Leagh Cerew headbutted Tim Pearson after he was asked to attend a conduct review at the Wrexham prison.

It came the day after the serving prisoner was peeved because a visit he was due to receive was cancelled after he refused to remove his hat.

“He was angry and upset and there was some animosity towards the officer,” prosecutor Helen Hall told North East Wales Magistrates Court.

“The officer went to get Cerew to attend the conduct review but he became agitated and was pacing around the office and he referred to the officer as ‘that c...t’.”

Cerew was returned back to his wing but then approached Mr Pearson, who was talking to another officer near a doorway, and grabbed his jacket before he violently thrust his head forward smashing the prison officer in the mouth.

Mr Pearson suffered a laceration and badly swollen upper lip and his tooth was pushed back and broken in the impact.

He needed a denture implant after the tooth was extracted.

Cerew, 37, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm on June 24 last year when he appeared at the Wrexham court via video link from HMP Parc in Bridgend, South Wales.

Magistrates committed Cerew to Mold Crown Court for sentencing on April 4.