A Tenby man appeared before magistrates in the town on Tuesday charged with offences of causing actual bodily harm and criminal damage in two separate incidents.
He was 37-year-old Paul Lock, of 47 Newell Hill, who admitted the charges, the first of which related to an assault on a 15-year-old boy - who cannot be named for legal reasons - in June of last year.
Crown prosecutor, Mr. Tim Roberts, stated that the boy had been with a group of friends in the fields behind Greenhill School, when they were approached by Lock.
They were laughing amongst themselves, which Lock thought to be at his expense, and he said to them: "You think that's funny."
The group of teenagers said they found it hard to understand what the defendant was saying and claimed that he seemed to be drunk.
He then proceeded to head-butt one the boys, who fought back in self-defence and hit the defendant on the nose.
The reason why Lock had approached the group of youngsters in the first place was not known, but defence solicitor, Mr. Robert Jones, stated that his client was "extremely concerned by his predicament," and had even arrived in court with a night bag, presumably expecting the worst.
The second offence took place in February this year, with Lock being accused of damaging doors belonging to the local housing authority in his property at Newell Hill.
When police arrived at the scene, Lock was sitting in one of the rooms, clenching a knife. He duly threw the knife away, before producing a Stanley knife and in his agitated state said to the officers: "I'm going to cut you up."
Officers then proceeded to use CS gas on the defendant and took him into custody.
Lock admitted in court that he was a recovering alcoholic and still had cravings.
The bench were given detailed pre-sentence and psychiatric reports on the defendant before passing judgement.
After taking all the issues into consideration, chairman Mr. Paul Speyer said they had decided to impose an 18-month probation order, to include the One to One rehabilitation programme.
Lock was also ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous and to pay a total of £256.84 - made up of £100 compensation to the victim, who suffered a swollen nose, two black eyes and a fracture to his left hand, £106.84 to the council for damage caused to their property, and £55 in court costs.