Drunken guest tried to strangle party host

Lee Humphreys, 42, of Lytham Road, South Shore, pleaded guilty to assaulting a man.

He was bailed to January 22 for sentence by Blackpool magistrates.

Pam Smith, prosecuting, said Humpheys was at his neighbour’s flat on November 16, having drinks when he started to fall asleep on a bed.

Humphreys got up, punched the host five times in the face before falling into a sideboard, knocking over a television and damaging a plug.

He put his hands round the host’s throat and squeezed while the host’s son shouted “get off my dad.”

When interviewed Humphreys said he had drunk three litres of cider and two bottles of sparkling wine.