A Port Erin man who refused to leave the Haven pub has been fined £900 for disorderly behaviour on licensed premises.

Christopher Thomas Davis pleaded guilty to the offence and was also ordered by magistrates to pay £125 prosecution costs.

Prosecuting advocate Barry Swain told the court how Davis was at the Port Erin pub on Station Road on November 15 at 7.30pm.

The barman said that he had drunk around five or six pints as well as a large Jack Daniels.

At 11pm, he called last orders and after that, Davis, who lives at Close Corneil, was said to have asked for another drink but was refused.

The barman said that he then started running around the pub shadow boxing customers.

He was asked to leave the pub but swore at customers and the barman, who then called 999.

Police arrived and Davis was said to have been verbally aggressive to them until he was subsequently arrested.

During an interview at police headquarters Davis answered ’no comment’ to all questions.

Defence advocate Laurence Vaughan-Williams asked for credit to be given for his client’s guilty plea.

The advocate said that they had not had the benefit of seeing CCTV footage in relation to the alleged shadow boxing but had seen footage of police entering the bar and speaking to Davis, with just an elderly man present.

’Police ask him to leave and the elderly man says "go on Chris",’ said Mr Vaughan-Williams.

’If he had left that would undoubtedly have been the end of the matter.

’The officer is standing close to him and he feels he may be going to be attacked so he utters some words to the police and is promptly handcuffed and put in a van.

’Nobody was involved except my client and the police officer. There was no assault. It was just a case that, when asked to leave, he didn’t.’

The court heard that Davis’s last conviction was more than a decade ago.

Davis offered to pay his fine at a rate of £10 per week, but magistrates’ chair Ken Faragher queried this, pointing out that five or six pints and a large Jack Daniels cost considerably more than £10.

However, Mr Vaughan-Williams said that Davis was employed at the time of the offence but was no longer employed.

Mr Faragher agreed to the rate and told the offender: ’Once again we hear the words if somebody had gone home when told, they wouldn’t be here.

’It seems to be a never-ending repeated story here.

’Had you listened to the police you would be a thousand pounds better off.’