A KILLER has continued the kind of street fighting that led to him fatally injuring a man more than ten years ago, York magistrates heard.
Steven John Stone, 38, threw punches at another man outside McDonalds in Blake Street, York, said Cathy Turnbull, prosecuting.
When the pair went to the ground at 4.20am on June 30, he continued brawling with the other man and hit him in the face.
In 2006, he was jailed for three years for the manslaughter of Michael Williams during an affray in the street outside the victim's home.
Ms Turnbull said of the incident in Blake Street: "It is a quite lengthy violent incident. It was the kind of street violence, punching in the street, which resulted in the affray and the death."
Stone, of Chapelfields Road, York, pleaded guilty to a public order offence and was given a 12-month community order with a 14-week nightly curfew between 7am and 7pm and 15 days' rehabilitative activities. He was also ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a statutory £85 surcharge.
For him, Steve Munro said he had been out drinking with another man and as a result of an incident in McDonalds that had nothing to do with him, the pair had got involved in an argument.
"It was a stupid argument that got out of control," he said. "He regrets it. He apologises to the court and to the members of the public who were there on that day."
Stone had suffered post traumatic stress syndrome as a result of the incident in 2006 and had tried to keep out of trouble since and put his past behind him.
Ms Turnbull showed the magistrates CCTV recording of the incident.
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