A fisherman who punched a security guard at the Palace Hotel has been sentenced to 150 hours’ community service.

Mark Benjamin Cain admitted common assault as well as possessing cannabis and was also ordered to pay his victim £500 compensation.

High Bailiff Jayne Hughes also banned Cain, who is 29, from entering licensed premises, and buying or consuming alcohol in public, for three months.

Prosecuting advocate Barry Swain told the court that police were called to the Palace Hotel on June 27 at 3.36am after staff reported guests acting aggressively.

The night manager said he had received a noise complaint about Cain and his girlfriend who were staying in a room.

He said he went to the room and asked them to keep the volume down but had been threatened by Cain so he called two members of security.

They went to the room and Cain was said to have threatened to ’knock them out’ before punching one of them in the face.

This resulted in the two security men and Cain ending up on the ground. Cain’s girlfriend was said to have slapped one of the men and hit the other on the arm.

Other guests tried to assist and Cain, who lives in Station Place, Peel, was arrested when police arrived.

A search of the couple’s room found 6.9 grams of cannabis, valued by police at £207.

When interviewed, Cain denied wrongdoing, saying he had been asleep with his girlfriend when the two security men had come into the room.

He also denied punching one of them or threatening them and claimed their actions were ’over the top’.

Cain admitted the cannabis was his, for personal use, and said that his girlfriend did not know about it.

Mr Swain said that Cain’s girlfriend had been cautioned by police.

A probation report said that Cain had been out celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday and they had been drinking in Peel at the Viking longboat races during the day, then continued into the evening.

Cain told probation he recalled struggling with the key card to the room at 3.15am and said he and his partner were laughing loudly.

He said the night manager had arrived and asked them to leave the hotel but, in their intoxicated state, they had not taken him seriously.

Cain said they were both naked when the three men entered the room and that he had then been dragged nude into the hall and put on the floor.

However, he then said he had little recollection of events and did not recall punching anyone.

Cain said he paid £100 for the cannabis.

The court heard that he has a previous conviction for grievous bodily harm in 2016.

High Bailiff Jayne Hughes said that a Newton Hearing, a procedure to determine the facts of a case, may be necessary as Cain’s description of the incident differed from the prosecution case.

However, defence advocate Paul Rodgers said that his client was now accepting the prosecution facts.

Mrs Hughes said that she was ’astonished’ that Cain’s partner had only been given a caution and told Cain: ’Any assault on security officers going about their job is unacceptable. They were perfectly within their rights to ask you to leave the hotel.

’I don’t doubt this offence would not have occurred had you not consumed so much alcohol.’

Cain was also ordered to pay £125 prosecution costs.