A TT visitor has been fined £400 for being drunk and disorderly.

Andrew Thompson admitted the offence and was also banned from entering licensed premises and buying or being sold alcohol for one month.

He was ordered to pay the fine and £125 prosecution costs forthwith or face 30 days in prison.

Thompson, whose age was not given in court, was arrested on Queen’s Promenade in Douglas on Monday when police saw him standing in the road moving cones.

He said that he had walked from the paddock after being involved with a racing team.

Thompson, of Holt Road, Burbage, Hinckley, Leicestershire, was said to have told police: ’I have the biggest mobile home on the paddock. Drop me off.’

Prosecutor Rachael Braidwood told the court that police saw Thompson with another man in the middle of the road. He was said to be moving traffic cones.

They warned Thompson to move out of the road but he ignored the request.

Both men were said to be holding cans. Police asked Thompson to move again but he refused.

Officers got out of their vehicle and spoke to Thompson before leaving.

They returned shortly afterwards to find Thompson in the road again and shouted at him that he would be arrested if he didn’t move.

A different police officer then saw Thompson again in the road moving cones and pulled over the talk to him.

Thompson was said to have started to run off but then stopped. He was said to be slurring his words and smelling of alcohol.

At police headquarters he was said to be so drunk police could not take his photo.

When quizzed he swore, telling police they were ’making a mistake and would regret it’.

The court heard that Thompson has a number of previous convictions, including ones for battery, harassment, and affray. He was also said to be on bail from Humberside police.

However, High Bailiff Jayne Hughes said that, as the offence was non-imprisonable, it was not possible to make an exclusion order to ban him from the island.

Defence advocate Winston Taylor said: ’Mr Thompson does not wish to challenge the case.

’He was involved in bike racing and was at the paddocks in the morning. He left to go to the shops and while travelling down realised he had dropped his keys for the race transporter and his own keys.

’He went looking for the items and went into the road and was moving cones looking for his items.

’There was another male with a can making a nuisance of himself and he told him to go away.’

Mr Taylor went on to say that Thompson said he had told police he was not drunk and offered to take a breathalyser test but said they were not interested.

High Bailiff Jayne Hughes queried whether Thompson accepted that he was drunk and disorderly as she said that an unequivocal plea could not be accepted.

Mr Taylor said that his client would accept he was drunk.

’He has been coming to the Isle of Man since he was four and has never been in trouble,’ said the advocate.

After being ordered to pay the fine and costs forthwith Thompson said that he could only withdraw £200 a day with his cash card but Mrs Hughes told him: ’Contact a member of your team or you will be taken to the Isle of Man prison.’