A man who drank ten pints of lager at a work Christmas party before throwing a stone slab through a restaurant window, was sentenced last Thursday.
Joshua Binns, 21, of Sykes Lane, Oakworth, caused damage worth £2,700 to The Curry House, in East Parade, on December 20 last year, Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court was told.
A struggle then ensued between Binns and the business owner, during which a pair of glasses belonging to the owner were broken. The court was told someone had offered to pay Binns £20 if he smashed the window and that he had little memory of the incident.
Chairman of the magistrates bench Neil Walker ordered Binns to pay a fine of £200 and compensation of £500 for breaking the window, £160 in compensation for the glasses, a victim surcharge of £15 and costs of £85.
He said: “That evening out has cost you just short of £1,000. I don’t think it was really worth it.”
The court was told Binns did not often drink and was hard-working.
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