Co Tyrone man who held bottle above shop staff member ordered to carry out community service
A Co Tyrone man who held a bottle above the head of a shop assistant causing him to be fearful, was ordered to carry out 160 hours of community service when he appeared at Dungannon Magistrates Court.
The court was told the 38-year-old from Dungannon stood above one staff member with the bottle and waving a pair of scissors.
Stuart Greenaway, of Derrylee Road, was sentenced for common assault, possessing an offensive weapon in a public place, possessing a bladed article in a public place, disorderly behaviour, and criminal damage to a police cell van on October 10 last year.
Prosecuting counsel said the incident happened at a supermarket in Augher and was captured on the store’s CCTV.
When police arrived and arrested Greenaway they placed him in a cell van and he repeatedly spat and was arrested again for criminal damage.
The lawyer said a heavily intoxicated Greenaway had earlier taken the scissors from his sister’s address.
He said at Dungannon custody the defendant denied all the allegations, describing them as lies.
A defence lawyer described it as “an unsavoury incident”.
He pointed out that Greenawy had spent nine weeks on remand in custody.
The defendant was now in full time employment and in a much better place than he had been.
The district judge said the matter had passed the custody threshold but he had to consider that the defendant has served the equivalent of a four-month sentence.
Imposing the community service order, he also made an order for the destruction of the weapons.