A 36-YEAR old roofer who swung a rounders bat in a 'threatening manner' in a pub garden in South Craven has been ordered to not drink alcohol for a period of 120 days.
Magistrates in Harrogate sentenced Damon Spikings on Friday for the possession of an offensive weapon without lawful authority or reasonable excuse at The Black Bull, High Street, Sutton-in-Craven, to a 12 month community order.
Spikings will have to comply with a 120 day alcohol abstinence requirement meaning he will not be able to drink alcohol for around four months.
He will also have to complete up to 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days, pay costs of £85 and a surcharge of £95. A forfeiture and destruction order was made on the rounders bat.
Spikings admitted the charge at an earlier hearing at Skipton Magistrates Court on January 13.
The court heard at the time that Spikings, now of Laithe Road, Barrowford, had been part of a group of men involved in an altercation with another group of men at the Black Bull on March 11, 2022.
He was caught on a CCTV camera swinging the bat and punching another, unnamed, man in the beer garden.
The court was told in mitigation that Spikings had reacted after he and his family had been threatened.
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