FORMER Warrington Wolves star Stuart Reardon has been given a suspended jail sentence for his part in an attack on his former wife.

The 27-year-old, who left the club earlier this month, avoided jail at an appearance at Bradford Domestic Violence Court today. He was given a 12-week suspended jail term.

Leon Pryce, charged following the same late night, drink-fuelled attack earlier this year, received a community punishment order. He will have to do 100 hours unpaid work.

Reardon, from Bradford, has been released by Hull FC 11 days after joining them from the Wolves after failing a rigorous medical.

Sentencing the pair, Deputy District Judge Alan Fowler described the assault last July as "astonishingly frightening".

The court heard the full-back separated from his wife in February last year and began divorce proceedings in May.

But he said he was "heartbroken" when friends told him Mrs Reardon was having a relationship with a new man, Damon O'Brien.

Reardon asked St Helens stand-off Pryce to accompany him to Mr O'Brien's flat so he could "see for himself".

The defendants, who had both been drinking, went to the flat but when neither Mrs Reardon nor Mr O'Brien opened the door, Reardon sent a text message to his wife's new boyfriend, claiming their young son was in hospital.

He then shoulder-charged the door, breaking the frame and the lock.

After shouting at his wife and calling her insulting names, Reardon, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, grabbed her arm "momentarily", causing three bruises.

Pryce, from Bradford, then pushed Mr O'Brien, who had armed himself with a rounders bat "for his own protection", causing him to stumble backwards and hit his head and neck on a pedal bin.