A YORK man who attacked members of a family has had his sentence cut on appeal.

Selby magistrates heard Rocky Depa, 31, with his sister and mother and others attacked members of the Horsley family in their Acomb home in the early hours last August in an argument over a love triangle.

They gave him an 18-week prison sentence, suspended for two years on condition that he do 300 hours’ unpaid work and observe a six-month nightly curfew.

Depa, of Burgess Walk, Foxwood, who pleaded guilty to affray, appealed against his sentence to York Crown Court on the grounds both the unpaid work hours and the curfew were the maximum the court could impose, and were therefore too much.

Judge Peter Benson, sitting with two magistrates, said: “It was an extremely serious affray. We could well understand if the magistrates had imposed an immediate spell of custody.”

They cut the number of unpaid hours’ work Depa must do to 200, but kept the curfew and the suspended sentence the same.

A court could make Depa serve the 18-week jail term if he breaks the law again in the next two years.