A 51-year-old man has been handed a 12-month conditional discharge for threatening behaviour.

James Jeremy Rennison admitted the offence.

Prosecuting advocate Chrissie Hunt last week told the High Bailiff that Rennison was sitting on the pavement outside the Nag’s Head pub in Victoria Street in Douglas on August 4 at 9pm.

He was said to be staring into the pub for around an hour and staff became worried about his behaviour.

Police arrived and he told them he had been walking all day and his ’legs had gone’.

He was arrested but then began flailing his arms around and was subsequently restrained.

Rennison was initially charged with resisting arrest but that was replaced with threatening behaviour.

Defence advocate Ian Kermode said: ’That day Mr Rennison had a busy day of appointments around Douglas. He was tired and his legs were aching so he sat down for a rest on the pavement.

’Police arrived and arrested him and he was somewhat perplexed by that. He accepts he did swear and flail his arms. But he does feel police could have handled things better. There is no evidence he was drunk.’

Mr Kermode said that police had told off a member of the public for filming the incident.

The court heard that Rennison, of Clarence Terrace, Douglas, is currently subject to two other conditional discharges, imposed in July and Mrs Hughes ruled that all three orders run alongside each other.

He will pay the prosecution costs of £125 at a rate of £10 per week.