A Wiltshire man has been recalled to prison after a police arrest escalated into a fight at his local Wetherspoons.

Mark Oldfield, who told magistrates that he had changed his name to Oaky McCue, of Hurricane Road in Bowerhill, indicated a plea of guilty to three counts of assaulting an emergency worker.

The 50-year-old had previously received a life imprisonment order for intentionally causing grievous bodily harm to a woman in Salisbury in September 2005 but was released after three years with the threat of being sent back behind bars if he ever committed another offence.

Keith Ballinger, prosecuting at Swindon Magistrates' Court, explained how a police officer being called to The Bear pub on Melksham's High Street on August 2, 2024, turned into a "brawl".

He said: "A man and woman are arrested. The defendant becomes verbally aggressive.

"The officer placed his hand on his chest and the defendant held on to the officer saying 'You're the [expletive] reason I'm going back to prison'."

The court heard that McCue then pushed the officer against a wall and tried to bite him. An off-duty police colleague stepped in to help and was also hit by the defendant.

Both officers tried to bring him to the ground as the on-duty officer became trapped between the wall and his assailant, who kicked him.

The pub's chef came to assist the officer and there was "a general struggle", Mr Ballinger added.

The off-duty officer received a cut above his left eye and the defendant's arm hit the chef in the nose, causing it to bleed.

The court was told that McCue shouted at and threatened those around him before he was restrained and arrested.

Mark Glendenning, mitigating, said: "He and his partner were out when a group of children shouted abuse at them and police were called.

"Mr McCue and his partner were spoken to and the officer was satisfied that he had not done anything wrong."

"His partner may have been involved in something and the officer goes to arrest her, she becomes verbally abusive, Mr McCue tries to assist her and merry hell breaks out."

In a letter to magistrates, McCue said: "I was keeping her calm and a lot of people turned up and it went mad.

"I suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, PTSD, and Dissociative Identity Disorder.

"I thought I was getting attacked. I did not know what was happening, I panicked, I did not know I was assaulting them."

McCue has been recalled to prison for 14 days and ordered to pay £154 to fund victim services.