Man assaults police officer 10 days after prison release

Re-jailed for string of new offences

A man was out of prison for just 10 days before he assaulted a police officer after an incident in a pub, a court's heard.

Thirty-seven-year-old Alistair John Cowin appeared before High Bailiff Jayne Hughes through video link from jail.

He pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour on licensed premises, theft and assaulting an officer as well as three counts of breaching his prison release.

Prosecution advocate Roger Kane told the court Cowin had been granted early release, on 15 February, but on 25 February entered a part of Douglas he was banned from.

Cowin went to the Bowling Green Hotel, on Derby Road, at around 4.15pm and was obviously drunk.

He threatened a barman and when police arrived to arrest him he admitted stealing two bottles of gin from a supermarket earlier that day.

At Police Headquarters he threw a cup of tea over a female officer while he was being held in the custody suite.

Mrs Hughes sent him back to prison for four weeks of his original jail term and imposed a further 26-week sentence for his latest offences.