30-year-old stamped on man he was drinking with
A Douglas man has been handed a suspended prison sentence after launching a frenzied and unprovoked attack on a man he'd invited to his father's boat for drinks.
Thirty-year-old Jole Richard Moore, of Palatine Road, was sentenced at Douglas Courthouse.
At an earlier hearing he denied assault, criminal damage and resisting police officers – but later changed his pleas to guilty.
Moore had been drinking with his friend, and a stranger, at the mooring in Douglas Marina last February when he suddenly knocked the man to the ground and stamped on him.
Five months later police were called to Palatine Road by a woman who said Moore was in her garden refusing to leave and obviously intoxicated.
When officers arrived he was arrested after telling them his name was Johnny Strange – at Police Headquarters he tried to flood his cell and smear faeces on walls.
Magistrates described his behaviour as appalling and sentenced him to 12 months imprisonment suspended for two years.
Moore was also ordered to pay £400 compensation to the man he attacked and £500 towards prosecution costs.
The bench also handed him a 12-month ban from entering licensed premises or purchasing alcohol.
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