A Castletown man got so drunk on a works night out he couldn’t remember throwing a pint glass across a crowded bar - until police showed him the CCTV a month later.

Jake Lee Sansbury, aged 25, had already been warned by staff at the Railway Hotel in Douglas about his behaviour on June 30.

At one point he shouted an obscenity at another customer.

Staff stopped serving him any more alcohol, but he later picked up a pint glass and threw it 15 feet across the room, before it smashed to the floor.

Sansbury, of King William’s Way, was ejected by security staff.

A month later, he attended police headquarters as part of the investigation, but could not remember what had happened. He was shocked by what he saw on the CCTV footage.

The life insurance industry worker admitted a charge of disorderly behaviour on licensed premises when he appeared before Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes on Thursday.

David Reynolds, defending, said that on the day in question, Sansbury had been on a half-day from work and he went out drinking with colleagues. The defendant was shocked and full of remorse at what had happened.

Mrs Hughes told Sansbury he was fortunate the glass did not hit anyone.

’Had it done so, you could have been facing much more serious charges,’ she said.

’Your behaviour, at the very best, can be described as boorish. It must have been very uncomfortable for those people with you and also anybody else having to deal with it.’

Sansbury was fined £750 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £126.80, which included a contribution towards the expense of recovering CCTV footage from the security firm.

In addition, he was banned from licensed premises and from buying, or being bought, alcohol for 10 weeks.