Fine for man who interfered with investigation

A man who interfered with a police investigation into criminal damage at a pizza outlet in Douglas has been fined.

Thomas Ashley Hall of Lheaney Road in Ramsey appeared before magistrates at Douglas Courthouse, when he admitted being drunk and disorderly and resisting police.

Prosecutor Roger Kane said Hall was outside Pizza Hut on Douglas Promenade in the early hours of August 31 when police were looking into an incident he wasn’t involved in.

However, he pestered them about CCTV and refused to let officers get on with their jobs – the court heard the 23 year old had to be sprayed with incapacitant twice after becoming aggressive.

Magistrates fined him a total of £675 and ordered him to pay costs of £125.