Paul David William Le Geyt, of Rue Le Masurier, went to the Windsor Surgery at the Lido Medical Centre on 26 July and told his GP that he needed a prescription for Valium.
However, when the 26-year-old was refused the drug he left the consulting room and started shouting profanities in front of staff and patients, the Magistrate’s Court heard.
The doctor noticed when Le Geyt left that the prescription he had printed out, but had not signed, had gone from the printer.
Le Geyt presented a prescription at Reids Pharmacy in the medical centre but was told it could not be dispensed because there was no doctor’s signature.
When the police arrived and searched him the prescription was no longer in his possession. It was found by an employee two days later folded up elsewhere in the pharmacy.
Legal adviser Advocate Carla Carvalho said that on 18 July Le Geyt was caught in possession of just under a gram of the Class B drug ethylphenidate in Parade Gardens toilets.
And at lunchtime the same day officers saw him unsteady on his feet in Lemprière Street and a plastic Kinder egg containing 824 mg of cannabis and 123 mg of a crushed bupronorphine tablet was found on him.
Advocate James Bell, defending, urged the court to impose a probation order, saying that Le Geyt would soon be in a job working six days a week, and added that the imposition of a community-service order requiring him to work on a Sunday ‘would be setting him up to fail’.
Assistant Magistrate Peter Harris said he was ‘prepared to take a forward-looking approach and would let the Probation Department try their best with Mr Le Geyt’.
However, he said that being abusive to staff and other patients in a doctor’s surgery ‘is clearly not acceptable’.
Mr Harris said that Le Geyt had spent four weeks in custody on remand and added: ‘If you breach the probation order, there is some custodial time in the bank. If you work hard with Probation, the risk of going to prison is reduced.’
Le Geyt also had his licence endorsed for riding a moped without a driving licence, insurance or the consent of the owner and was also told to pay £75 compensation to cover the cost of cleaning a police cell which he damaged on 9 August.
