A 59-year-old man was convicted of using threatening behaviour in an Irish pub in Hitchin on St Patrick’s Day this year.

James Goodwin, of Harkness Court, Franklin Gardens was fined £880 for abusing Danielle Ambrose in Molly Malones on Nightingale Road on Thursday, March 17.

Goodwin, who also smashed a light shade and glasses, was barred from entering the pub for a year by Stevenage magistrate Nicholas Moss.