Jamie-Lee Smith, 22, from Stone in Staffordshire, left his own grandmother with a fractured shoulder joint and arm after trying to take her phone from her.
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court was told how he locked her out of her own home, which he used to share with her, on January 28.
Prosecutor Henry Skudra said: “He verbally abused her and made unpleasant comments. After a short while he answered the door but verbally abused his grandmother.
“She went off down the street using her phone. She was followed by the defendant who attempted to take the phone out of her hand with force.
“In the course of that she fell to the floor causing her instant pain to her arm, shoulder and knee. He threw the phone on the floor and left the scene.”
Smith pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm.
The court was told he obtained nine GCSEs and is intelligent, however he "drifted" in life.
Judge David Fletcher told Smith: “The victim of this serious assault was your own grandmother, a woman with whom you had lived.
"The bond between grandparents and grandchildren is often one of the strongest that there is.
“She has been deeply affected by this behaviour by you.
“It is a very sad state of affairs when a grandmother is asking for protection from her own grandson.
“You have got to change. You need to think long and hard. You need to grow up. People convicted of section 20 offences are more often than not sent straight to prison.
“I sentence you on the basis of the magistrates’ finding – that you were reckless.”
Smith was sentenced to 12 months in jail, suspended for 18 months, and banned from contacting his gran for three years.
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