AN angry teenage arsonist who sent a 'revenge porn' sex video to humiliate a young woman is in trouble again for punching and headbutting his dad and threatening to kill him with a knife.

Oliver Price, who also hit a man with a metal bar in a drunken rage at Worcester YMCA, was due to be sentenced at Worcester Crown Court for the attack on his dad.

However, the 19-year-old's whereabouts at that time of the court hearing were unknown and his legal representative did not attend the sentence, leading the prosecutor to describe Price as 'AWOL'.

A note provided by a probation officer in court showed Price been released from prison on May 5 but the prosecutor, Olivia Appleby, confessed 'I don't know where he is'.

It has since transpired that Price, who had been in custody, had since been placed in a secure hospital which was why he did not attend the court hearing on Tuesday.

Judge Nicolas Cartwright was forced to adjourn sentence until May 25 this year. A psychiatric report had been ordered but the judge said he had not yet seen one on the digital case system.

Notes from the defendant's solicitor suggested there had been 'an issue with a funding application' as they attempted to obtain that report.

Judge Cartwright said: "He should be here - or produced if he's in custody. He's due to be sentenced on count two, common assault on his father including punches and a headbutt and taking a kitchen knife and threatening to stab his father and kill him."

We have previously reported how Price of Teesdale Close, Droitwich, sent the sex video to the woman's friends, who chose not to view it, and even to her brother (though it was deleted before he could see it) in October last year. He had used the footage, in the judge's words, 'as a weapon' against her.

The apprentice chef also attacked a man with a metal pole at the YMCA in Stanley Road in Worcester before he struggled with city police, threatening to headbutt a police officer while shouting and swearing.

At a hearing last December Judge James Burbidge QC, the Honorary Recorder of Worcester, spared the 18-year-old jail because of his mental health issues, describing him as 'fragile', immature and 'a child'. "He's emotionally stunted. He's immature. He's excessively jealous" said the judge.

Last year Price, who lit a cigarette as soon as he stepped out of the court, admitted disclosing a sexual image to cause distress, harassment, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and affray.

The defendant already had a youth caution for ABH and four offences of battery by the time he was 17. In May 2018 he was made subject to a six month referral order by the youth court for arson in September 2017.

In one message he said: "All I have left in me is pure hatred." In another message he wrote: "I honestly hope she is crying her eyes out now."

Price said to her in a further message: "I will continue to make your life a living hell as long as you continue to mug me off - and that's a promise."

On November 9 last year at the YMCA in Stanley Road, Worcester and while on bail for the other offence, the defendant was described as discharging a fire extinguisher outside the door of a resident.

The resident, who was with his friend, was in the process of moving out and into a studio flat.

Mr Russell said Price threatened to knock the man 'the **** out' if he did not return to his room.

Both men were said to be 'intimidated' by Price who was by now brandishing a metal bar which one of them tried to grab hold of, causing a cut to his hand.

Price then hit the man to the right side of his body with the metal bar, also hitting him in the face with an elbow before the defendant continued to punch him. The victim suffered a bleeding lip as a result.

A number of police officers arrived by which time Price had locked himself in his room and refused to come out, officers taking 30 to 40 minutes to coax him out.

Through his window an officer could see Price holding a half metre long aluminium pipe. Officers armed with Tasers had to attend as Price continued to shout threats.

Price was sentenced to 12 months in prison suspended for 18 months and also made subject to a community order on the last occasion. As part of this he was told he must complete 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days, a victim impact workbook, 14 sessions of the choices and chances resource pack and go to an attendance centre for 36 hours.

The judge also made a restraining order which prohibits Price from contacting the victim of the sexual disclosure offence. This will run until December 9, 2025.