A REDDITCH roofer who waylaid his brother and bit him on the nose has been jailed for eight months at Worcester Crown Court.

Judge David McEvoy QC said 24-year-old Dean Ellis had carried out a revenge attack after an argument in a cafe on October 18, 2004.

Ellis, of Greenlands Avenue, Greenlands, who pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm, was also ordered to pay £500 compensation to his brother, Daniel.

Michael Aspinall, prosecuting, said the brother suffered from three superficial bites but they became infected and he had to have a tetanus booster injection.

Arguments had developed in the family after Dean Ellis had taken his father and brother into his successful roofing business, said Andrew Davidson, defending.

They fell out and he began drinking and taking drugs.

The business collapsed and his life had been in chaos for some time.

But he now had a stable relationship with a partner, was off drugs and had started another roofing business with an uncle.

He had distanced himself from the rest of his family.

Judge McEvoy said it was a serious attack. Ellis had threatened his brother in the cafe, lain in wait at his house and then jumped on him as he walked up the garden path.