A Douglas man who threw a bottle at a police officer has been put on probation for a year.

Forty-two-year-old Phillip Neill Baillie admitted assaulting a police officer, threatening behaviour, and being drunk in public.

Magistrates also handed him a 12-month licensing ban.

Prosecuting advocate Annie Bannister told magistrates that, on July 9 at 9.30am, Baillie entered a rear garden of a property at Castlemona Avenue.

He was described as heavily intoxicated, and started shouting abuse at a woman in a neighbouring property, using the word ‘c***’.

The property owner, whose garden he was in, then also came out, and asked him to leave, but Baillie abused him, saying: ‘I’ll rip your throat out. I’ll kill your dog.’

Baillie then started to throw tools that were already in the garden, and swing bottles around.

Police arrived, but Baillie threw a bottle at an officer, hitting his head and shoulder.

The defendant then held a shard of glass, threatening self-harm, while a negotiator tried to talk to him.

He was then tasered, but still held the shard, which resulted in him being tasered for a second time, then restrained.

When interviewed later, Baillie said he’d been withdrawing from alcohol and had been hearing voices and seeing things.

On July 12, police were called to the beach on Central Promenade after a report of a male entering the water with rocks in his pockets.

The Coastguard and Lifeboat were called out, but Baillie came back to shore and was described as slurring his words and unsteady on his feet.

Defence advocate Paul Glover said that his client struggled with alcohol addiction, but was working with the Drug and Alcohol Team, and it had now been six weeks without further offending.

Magistrates also ordered Baillie, who lives at Mona Drive in Douglas, to pay £250 prosecution costs at a rate of £10 per week, deducted from benefits.