A DRUG debt enforcer has been jailed for smashing a pensioner’s jaw and threatening to stab his two dogs in an argument over just £100.

Jack Reilly claimed he was collecting money owed for pills which had been bought by the victim, who said he had already paid in full.

Reilly pushed the elderly man to the floor of his home in Paignton and punched him in the face, leaving him with a double fracture of the jaw.

He needed an operation to remove a tooth, fit a metal plate and realign his mouth and was so frightened that he moved away from the area as soon as he was well enough.

He only knew the red-headed attacker by his nickname Ginge but Reilly was so notorious around Torbay that police recognised the description and tracked him down.

Reilly, aged 19, of Totnes Road, Paignton, admitted causing grievous bodily harm and was jailed for 16 months by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court.

He will serve the sentence after completing a ten month term which he received last month from the same judge for dangerous driving.

Miss Felicity Payne, prosecuting, said Reilly went to the victim’s house with another man, who has not been identified, and demanded £100 before launching the attack.

He told the pensioner he would attack him again and stab his dogs if he went to the police and repeated the threat when he saw the injured man on his way to hospital.

Mr Paul Dentith, defending, said Reilly had never known his mother and been raised by his grandmother. He had a very disrupted childhood but is determined to break his cycle of offending.

He said Reilly is struggling in prison because he is not receiving medication of ADHD, suspected autism and bi-polar disorder.