UNPAID WORK ORDER FOR MAN WHO TOLD WOMAN HE’D CURSE HER

A man who told a woman that he would ‘curse her’ after she didn’t let him back into her home has appeared in court. Martin D’Arcy, 54, of Fort Street in Sandown pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words to cause harassment, alarm or distress when he appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court earlier this week (2nd January). Liz Miller, prosecuting, told the court that in the early hours of 11th December, D’Arcy attempted to enter an address in Newport having been told to leave some hours earlier. D’Arcy became verbally aggressive and told the woman that he would curse her, and called her a a c**t. Defending, Michael McGoldrick told the court that D’Arcy had been on an alcohol tag – which monitors the level of alcohol in his system – up until 3 days before the incident when it was removed after he deemed it too tight for his ankle. He added that D’Arcy had wrongly chosen to listen to a friend’s advice when they said he should drink some brandy to cure an ailment in his chest. D’Arcy was handed a community order with 40 hours of unpaid work attached. He was ordered to pay costs of £85 and a £114 surcharge fee.