A MAN must carry out 120 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to using threatening behaviour in a remote North Tyne village.
Lance Cape (29) of Westmorland Road in Newcastle, appeared at South East Northumberland Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, July 2.
He pleaded guilty to one charge of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear or provoke unlawful violence.
All charges related to an incident in Byrness on May 7.
Cape was given a 12-month community order and told to complete 120 hours of unpaid work.
He was also ordered to pay a £95 victim surcharge and costs of £85.
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