A teenager has been fined £700 for threatening behaviour and possessing valium.

Daniel James McSween admitted both offences as well as possessing cannabis which magistrates made no separate penalty for.

The 18-year-old was also ordered to pay £125 costs.

Prosecuting advocate Barry Swain told the court that McSween was in a car being driven by another party at 1.30am on May 25.

The car was in Chester Street car park in Douglas when it was involved in a collision resulting in a ’loud bang’.

Police were called by a member of the public and a small blue tablet was found on the passenger seat of the car where McSween had been sitting.

He admitted to police that it was his and said he used it for sleeping.

However, McSween was then said to have become verbally aggressive, swearing and saying: ’Get your hands off me, you can’t touch me.’

A small amount of cannabis, valued at £1.14, was found on his person and he was taken to police headquarters.

Once there he said to police: ’I want to be honest. I have pills in my pants. I have about 50.’

When interviewed McSween, who lives in Whitebridge Road, Onchan, told police the pills were valium which he used for sleeping.

He said he had bought the pills for about £80.

McSween said the cannabis found in his trousers was a small amount he had forgotten he had.

He claimed police had been aggressive with him.

The court heard that he has no previous convictions.

Defence advocate Jane Gray said: ’It was an extremely small amount of class ’B’.

’He tells me he hit his head on the windscreen during the incident and didn’t see the police officer run up behind him and grab him.

’He says he didn’t know who it was who pushed him onto the bonnet so he was shouting for that person to get off. He did become aware it was police but felt he had been manhandled.’

Ms Gray went on to say that McSween had only bought the valium an hour beforehand and said he had been depressed and anxious after losing his job.

’A friend suggested diazepam,’ said the advocate. ’Unfortunately, a few months down the line he found himself addicted.

’It is probably a good thing this has happened as once arrested it came to light and he went to his GP. He continued to be prescribed diazepam but has been weaned off it.’

Magistrates ordered McSween to pay the fine and costs at a rate of £10 per week, deducted from benefits.