Mark Heighton, of Marsh Street, Barrow, was sentenced at South Cumbria Magistrates’ Court on January 28 after previously pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. “The defendant became involved in an argument with his mother,” Mr Kelly said. Mr Kelly showed the court CCTV footage of the assault. The court heard his father lost a tooth and sustained cuts to his head and eye. Heighton, who chose not to be legally represented, told magistrates: “It should not have come to this.