The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A court has issued a six-month ban on a 32-year-old Spalding man from going to a local pub after hearing that staff were “cowering” behind the bar as he fought with a friend he had fallen out with.
Christopher John Wayne Morris of Spring Gardens admitted using threatening behaviour likely to cause alarm or distress, when he appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.
Prosecuting, Shelley Wilson said Morris had gone out with a friend on the afternoon of July 26 and both started drinking heavily in the Hungry Horse pub in Halmer Gate, Spalding.
She said bar staff decided not to sell any more alcohol to the pair, who then started shouting at each other and eventually the two started fighting, during which a bar stool was thrown.
Ms Wilson said female bar staff were “cowering behind the bar” when police arrived and one told an officer that she was “afraid she would get hurt if she had come out from behind the bar”.
Morris, who was said to have 88 previous convictions, including battery and public order offences, told the magistrates he was “ashamed” of his behaviour.
He was legally banned from the pub for six months and ordered to pay a fine and costs and charges totalling £195.
