A robber who attacked his victim on the doorstep of his own home was jailed for five years on Tuesday. Mark Briskham, aged 23, was already serving a community order for assault when he beat Darren John Hannaford and stole up to £360 from his wallet. Briskham admitted robbery. Tom Scrapens, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court how Mr. Hannaford arrived home at his flat in the converted Old Coronation School building in Meyrick Street, Pembroke Dock, following a night out at the Dolphin Hotel. As he opened the front door, Briskham suddenly appeared and attacked him, knocking him to the ground and causing a serious wound to the back of his head. Mr. Scrapens said at one point Briskham stood above him and threw crisps at him. He then ran away. Police noticed a pool of blood outside Mr. Hannaford's flat, but also blood on the door of flat No 21, the home of Hannaford's mother. Further investigation showed blood on a shower unit inside No 21, where Briskham was staying, and he was arrested within two hours of the attack. At first he pretended that Mr. Hannaford had tried to grab hold of his Chinese takeaway and that he had simply pushed him away. Carina Hughes, representing Briskham, said the father of three was now drug free and wanted to leave Pembroke Dock to get away from the people he mixed with. Miss Hughes said for a nine-week period Briskham had been the sole carer for his children. Judge Huw Davies said he found it very disturbing that a child as young as two could be left in the care of a regular drug taker. He said Briskham had carried out a serious and sustained attack on a man in the process of letting himself into his own home, where he should have been able to feel safe. Briskham was jailed for four-and-a-half years for the robbery and an additional six months for the earlier assault on his then partner.