A man found guilty of attacking a York neighbourhood watch co-ordinator has been warned he faces jail.

Glen Jowitt, 26, was convicted of attacking Bryan Flanagan, 60, in a row sparked partly over a change of the name of the Clifton street where they both live.

Kingsway North was renamed Burton Green after Mr Flanagan and friends campaigned to change the title in a bid to improve the street's tarnished image.

Jowitt was convicted of causing actual bodily harm to Mr Flanagan by an 11-1 majority of the jury at York Crown Court.

He was found not guilty of common assault against Mr Flanagan's daughter, Marianne. She had claimed Jowitt threw a punch at her but missed as she walked the family dog only hours after the attack on her father.

Jowitt had denied both charges, claiming he acted in self-defence.

Judge Paul Hoffman told Jowitt's barrister Paul Williams: "He has got to understand prison is the most probable sentence. That is what will almost inevitably happen to him."

He adjourned sentencing Jowitt until February 1 next year to allow pre-sentence and medical reports to be drawn up. Jowitt was granted conditional bail.

Earlier in the trial, the jury was told how Mr Flanagan, his daughter and Jowitt had travelled separately on the same bus from York city centre just prior to the confrontation in Burton Stone Lane last year.

James Hargan, prosecuting, had told the court Mr Flanagan heard a voice shout "I live in Kingsway North, not Burton Green" and "Bryan Flanagan is a grasser".

When the three got off the bus, Jowitt aimed a punch at Mr Flanagan's head and then pushed his thumb into his eye leaving him bruised and bleeding. Mr Flanagan received treatment to his injured eye at York District Hospital.