A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service after a row outside a Douglas pub with police and bouncers.

Radoslaw Piotr Nelke, of Princes Road, Douglas, was one of two men arrested after they were refused entry to Jaks bar on Douglas promenade.

Roman Pszezolkowski, 24, was also ordered to perform 80 hours of community service earlier this month for drunk and disorderly behaviour and resisting police.

Nelke pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly and obstructing police and was also ordered to pay £125 prosecution costs.

The court heard how, on October 30 at 11.40pm, police were called to Jaks after a report of the two men becoming agitated after being refused entry to the pub.

Both men were said to be shouting abuse, but Nelke was said to be the main protaganist.

Nelke swore at the bouncers and tried to push his way into the pub but was blocked.

Police said that he was smelling of alcohol, slurring his words and had glazed eyes.

He then refused to leave the area, saying that he was a ’professional bouncer’ and should be allowed into the pub.

Nelke then walked away, swearing as he went and was asked by police for his details.

He laughed, saying he had no ID so he would give them a false name.

Nelke moved away but while police were speaking to Pszezolkowski, they saw Nelke come running at them, shouting aggressively.

Security staff from Jaks were still at the scene and they restrained Nelke until he was subsequently arrested.

As he was arrested he continued to struggle and resist.

Nelke’s advocate Dawn Jones entered a basis of plea on behalf of her client accepted that his behaviour towards the door staff had been unacceptable.

He said that when he ran towards police he had not intended to intervene in Pszezolkowski’s arrest but he understood how police may have thought that.

He also admitted that when he was arrested he braced his arms and made it difficult to arrest him.

Mrs Jones told the court how Nelke was the sole carer for his son, holding down a job to provide for him.

The advocate said: ’My client has struggled with alcohol in the past. He has a previous conviction, alcohol-related, earlier this year. He is determined his son is not going to be affected by an alcoholic father as he was.

’He has a list by his mirror which gives him all the reasons why he shouldn’t drink and behave in the same way his father did. Drinking in moderation isn’t the solution, abstinence is.’

Nelke was sentenced to 80 hours of community service for each of the two offences, to run concurrently.