An East Molesey drug dealer who threatened to burn down the Cricketers pub in Kingston and assaulted the brother of a woman who owed him £40 outside Poundland has been jailed.

Timothy Reddin, 24, who has a string of violent offences to his name, rang his 24-year-old victim, known as Mr Roberts, before the attack to say his sister owed him money and it was “now his debt”.

Reddin then stated if he did not get his £40 he would “smash [Mr Roberts’] face in”, Kingston Crown Court heard.

When he saw Mr Roberts outside New Malden Poundland on May 9 last year Reddin shouted “I want my f*****g money and repeatedly punched him until he agreed to pay up.

Mr Roberts suffered a concussion and a bleed in the ear in the sustained assault.

Less than a month later on June 2 Reddin attacked Cricketers barmaid Georgina Cardall when she was closing up for the night.

He destroyed her phone and threatened to burn the pub down if she told anyone. He was sentenced to eight weeks in prison for the assault.

While still on bail for actual bodily harm after the May attack and having just left prison for the assault on Miss Cardall, Reddin attacked 26-year-old Eugene Marsh in Charter Road, New Malden.

He pinned him to the ground, repeatedly head-butting and punching him.

After Reddin’s original arrest for assault he was found in possession of several bags of cannabis and 1.7 grams of cocaine.

A police search on his home also found scales and £360 in cash, which officers linked to drug dealing.

During sentencing today Judge Michael Holland branded Reddin a “bully”.

He said: “It seems to me numerous blows to a man pinned to the floor unable to defend himself combined with head-butting does make this a sustained attack.

“Your defence have argued [you] had a troubled upbringing with your mother and father separating and, when your father became ill, you were put into care.

“But you are now 24-years-old. You are a bully”.

Reddin, of Walton Road, admitted ABH, GBH, possession with intent to supply cannabis and possession of cocaine.

He was sentenced to four years and four months in prison and ordered to pay £100 in fines.

Detective inspector Adam Guttridge, from Kingston CID, said: “Reddin is a violent offender whose crimes have had a significant and lasting effect on his victims.

"Police dedicated significant resources to locating him and eventually it was local officers who were off duty that affected his capture and arrest.

"The sentence reflects the seriousness of the offences and his propensity for violence.”