AN alcoholic has been fined after he was rowdy close to York’s main probation service offices.

Catherine Turnbull, prosecuting, told York magistrates that staff at the offices contacted police about Desmond Ambrose Wassell’s violent argument in Lowther Street.

His solicitor, Richard Minion, said Wassell, who has a personality disorder, was annoyed another man had taken his alcohol and he was trying to get it back.

Wassell, 36, who gave English Martyrs’ Church, Dalton Terrace, as his address, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly on February 11.

When magistrates fined him £35, plus £15 victim surcharge, plus £50 prosecution costs, a total of £100, he objected, saying he was already paying court fines for other crimes.

Magistrates said they accounted for those when setting the new fine.