Fine for disorderly drunk involved in 'prolonged and protracted' incident

35-year-old 'highly embarrassed' at behaviour 

A Maughold man has been fined £1300 after becoming disorderly in a pub during a work night out.

Daniel Thomas Fielden, of Ballure Holiday Homes, was given a chance to walk away from the incident but refused to do so.

At Douglas Courthouse the 35-year-old admitted displaying disorderly behaviour on licensed premises, and resisting police officers, on 2 December.

The court was told Fielden had been drinking in The Union, in Castletown, when he began shouting and swearing at the assistant manager.

He pushed a customer who was being served before getting into a ‘scuffle’ with another, fell off a chair and then ended up pushing a friend he was with.

After refusing to leave the pub police were called who also encouraged Fielden to vacate the establishment; however a short time later they were summoned back after he reappeared.

Officers who arrested Fielden were forced to use leg restraints to help detain him after he resisted their efforts to place him in the police van.

During sentencing a probation officer told the court Fielden had received two ‘significantly negative’ pieces of information on the night out including that he was to lose his employment.

"In hindsight he knows he was not in a good place mentally," they told the court adding Fielden was 'highly embarrassed' at his behaviour.

Describing it as a 'very prolonged and protracted incident' High Bailiff James Brooks also ordered Fielden to pay £125 in prosecution costs and imposed a six-month licensing ban.