A MAN who was arrested for disorderly behaviour and resisting arrest twice has been fined £1,000 and bound over to be of good behaviour.
The Magistrate’s Court heard this week that Ryan Luke Palfrey (24) had been trying to separate two other men who had been fighting when he was arrested during the most recent incident on Sunday.
Legal adviser Samantha Nixon told the court that the fight had broken out between two men in Beresford Street at around 2am. One of the men was a friend of Palfrey’s.
She said: ‘He was trying to keep them apart, and push his friend away from the other man. There was a bit of pushing and shoving.’
When police arrived he was arrested. He tried to run away but was caught again within 20 seconds.
Palfrey had been due to appear in court next week on another charge of resisting arrest, following an incident in the town centre on 9 July.
Advocate Paul Nicholls, defending, said alcohol-fuelled behaviour was ‘experienced in most major cities’, and added: ‘This is very much at the lowest level of offending.’
Assistant Magistrate Peter Harris fined Palfrey £500 for disorderly behaviour and another £500 for resisting arrest on 9 July.
For resisting arrest by running off after his arrest on Sunday morning, he was bound over to be of good behaviour for six months.
