Castletown man punches an off-duty police officer

Twenty-three-year-old will be sentenced in February

A court’s heard a drunken man from Castletown punched an off-duty police officer after throwing gravel at passing cars.

Twenty-three-year-old Kieran Michael Cain of Farrant’s Way appeared before High Bailiff Jayne Hughes at Douglas Courthouse.

He admitted one count each of assault and being drunk and disorderly.

Prosecution advocate Rebecca Cubbon told the court witnesses called police after seeing Cain, who was extremely drunk, on Glencrutchery Road.

At around 3pm on 24 October, Cain had been kicking bins in the TT pit lane and scooped up gravel to hurl at traffic.

An off-duty officer spotted him on Ballaquayle Road and stopped to speak to him, but Cain punched him before other officers arrived.

The court heard Cain had a number of previous convictions for drunkenness and alcohol-related offences.

He was bailed in the sum of £500 and will appear in court for sentencing on 1 February.