​A drunk dad punched ​and headbutted his sister after ​she objected to him driving off with his children after he had spent the day drinking.

Taylor Smith's ​violent outburst​, which ​also included abusing her sexuality and branding her a "f***ing freak", erupted after ​he had agreed ​to meet his girlfriend, only to be challenged about taking the two youngsters with him.

​Having insulted Lucy Smith and asserted she would "cry like a b**ch" if he hit her, he then launched his attack, relenting only when she bit him.

However, having slapped and struck her again, he stormed out, threatening to kill her if she reported him to police.

​With that warning ignored, the 25-year-old was eventually arrested. But police were also subjected to his temper when he racially abused one officer and pushed hot drinks over another.

He also displayed a distinct lack of remorse when he told a probation officer that his sister had "backed him into a corner" and "got the reaction she was looking for".

Canterbury Crown Court heard the aspiring barber had spent the day and evening of July 27, 2023, drinking with his dad.

His sister was present, as were his two children, and he reacted violently when told he should not take them with him to see his partner, said prosecutor Caroline Knight.

She told the court: "His sister challenged him, saying 'You can't drive the kids anywhere. You're drunk', to which he replied 'What the f*** are you going to do?'."

Smith then called her a lesbian and "a f***ing freak", stated she would "cry like a b**ch", and then punched her twice, landed a headbutt and pulled her by her throat.

He slapped her legs and face and with his last punch he left, shouting and insulting her and saying not to call the police or he would kill her...

"She freed herself by biting his arm but felt dizzy and lay down to recover," continued Ms Knight.

"He slapped her legs and face and with his last punch he left, shouting and insulting her and saying not to call the police or he would kill her.

"As he left he upended a coffee table, smashing a glass."

The court heard Ms Smith was left with a cut lip as well as swelling and bruising.

When arrested four weeks later, he racially abused a female officer by referring to her skin colour and telling her to "f*** off back there", and pushed two hot drinks over a detention officer.

Smith, of St Mildred's Road, Ramsgate, initially denied three assault charges before pleading guilty in November last year.

Now a dad of three with his youngest child having been born in January, the court was told he has previous convictions for violence, including ones against his father and police, as well as offences of criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly.

The former salesman, who is currently in receipt of £1,300 in benefits, was also subject to a conditional discharge at the time he attacked his sister.

But defence lawyer James Burke argued that Smith - now attending Alcoholics Anonymous and with a nine-week barbering course lined up - had matured and would continue to do so with the help of the probation service.

Urging the court to spare the defendant prison, Mr Burke said: "He is well-intentioned. He does need to mature further and it is my submission that a community-based sentence would offer him the opportunity to rehabilitate himself and build on the good work he has been doing."

However, Judge Simon Taylor KC disagreed, describing the attack on Ms Smith as one that was "prolonged and persistent", with hostility based upon sexual orientation, and committed not just when in drink but also in the presence of children

He told Smith that although mitigation could be found in the efforts he had made, as well as his difficult upbringing and mental health issues, he was neither "ready to be rehabilitated" in the community nor "ready to engage" with probation.

Furthermore, the judge added, he had shown "little remorse or awareness" for the physical and psychological damage he had caused his sister, and had even resorted to victim-blaming.

Jailing Smith for 14 months, Judge Taylor told him: "This is about my analysis as to whether you are ready to engage with the probation service. It would appear you are not.

"The reality is, I need to consider the principle factor of whether you can be adequately punished in the community.

"I'm afraid, in your case, I don't think you can and I don't think you are ready for rehabilitation in the community."