Man denies assault and carrying knife at Douglas store

A court’s heard claims a man who turned aggressive after shop staff refused to serve him alcohol was also carrying a nine-inch kitchen knife.

Ralph John Walker of Grosvenor Road in Douglas appeared before magistrates at Douglas Courthouse.

He denies assault, possessing a knife in public and being drunk and disorderly at the Co-op on Duke Street in Douglas on January 10.

Prosecutor Barry Swain told the court the 49 year old got into an argument after staff refused to sell him cans of lager and asked him to leave the shop.

Mr Walker’s alleged to have pinched one worker and offered to fight another before police arrived and discovered a kitchen knife in a bag he was carrying.

Magistrates bailed him in the sum of £500 on condition he doesn’t enter licensed premises or buy alcohol and he’ll appear in court again on February 25.