Neighbour called officers to Albury public housing flat

Albury man Adam Ian John was repeatedly asked to calm down by two officers trying to arrest him.

But John chose instead to strongly resist their attempts to put him in handcuffs, including grabbing one officer's hand, putting it in his mouth and biting down hard.

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The officer only managed to pull his fingers from John's mouth as his teeth made contact with his skin.

The police were at John's Thurgoona Street public housing unit in response to a neighbour's report about domestic violence he was inflicting on his wife of three years.

Defence lawyer Graham Lamond said John - an intellectually disabled man with a litany of mental health issues - simply couldn't stop himself flying into a rage.

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In this latest incident, on June 6, Mr Lamond said the two arresting officers calmly asked the disability pensioner to himself calm down.

"They know each other, they know each other by name. The accused is not able to calm himself down."

John, 37, pleaded guilty to destroy or damage property, intimidation, contravention of an apprehended violence order, resist police and two counts of assault police.

The court was told how in the early afternoon on the day of the incident, John left home to visit a friend.

He returned by 5pm, then drank three glasses of sherry while on a call to Optus to change his mobile phone number.

John "turned nasty". He picked up his wife's mobile phone and threw this at a wall, smashing the glass screen and "rendering it useless".

He then turned his vitriol towards his wife, using foul language to order her to move out "in 48 hours".

"The accused told the victim to grab her clothes but leave the cat, which upset the victim as she loves the cat and had registered the cat in her name," police said.

Magistrate Richard Funston said it was clear that John "does react badly".

"Mr John, I'm going to stick my neck out a lot today with an intensive corrections order."

The order will run for nine months.