TWO men have been jailed after a Weymouth guesthouse owner was attacked in his own home.

Cornelius William John Oliver, 23, and Jake Junior Stewart, 20, both admitted a charge of affray over an incident in Carlton Road South.

Prosecutor Jodie Mittell said on May 21 last year guesthouse owner Michael Clark was told about an unauthorised car parked in the property’s car park and went out to take photos of the vehicle.

She said Mr Clark accepted that Oliver, who later admitted being the driver of the blue Renault Megane, ‘took exception’ to the guesthouse owner taking photos.

Miss Mittell said Mr Clark accepted that he put his foot on the car’s bumper before it drove off.

She said moments later the two defendants returned with another male and forced their way into Mr Clark’s property.

Miss Mittell said: “He then describes who he says is Mr Oliver with a broken broom handle waving it like a spear and jabbing it towards him.

“He then describes Mr Oliver picking up a pine table and throwing it at him.”

The men eventually left the premises after Mr Clark’s partner phoned the police and he was left with injuries to his knee, elbows and shoulder.

Oliver admitted the offence on the basis that he had stopped the car outside the guesthouse to look at a map and remonstrated with a man taking photos of him, causing a heated argument in which he accepted using violence.

In Stewart’s accepted basis of plea he claimed he had thrown stones at Mr Clark’s door and entered the house for ‘a few seconds’ but didn’t use violence.

Graeme Ford, representing Oliver, said his client – who lives in Erith in Kent – accepted his behaviour had been unacceptable.

He said: “The matter got out of hand and of course it shouldn’t have happened.”

Benjamin Holt, representing Stewart, stressed that his involvement was ‘limited’ and Stewart, of Federation Road, Abbey Wood in London, felt ‘genuine remorse’ for his actions.

Judge Roger Jarvis sentenced Oliver to 13 months in prison and Stewart to 34 weeks after he accepted he played a ‘significant but lesser role’ in the attack.

He added: “This was an utterly terrifying attack on people in the privacy of their own home.”