A FLOOR LAYER must spend the weekend evenings at home for the next six months after he hit another man outside the Punchbowl pub, near Micklegate Bar, York.

Prosecutor Ann Darwin told York magistrates that Martyn Nathan Healey, 19, punched a man then ran off.

But a police officer who saw the blow, chased him and caught him after he tried to hide in a nearby garden.

Healey, of East Mount Road, York, pleaded guilty to a public order offence and was put on a six-month curfew for Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.

His solicitor, Mark Thompson, said the victim started the incident by coming out of the pub as Healey was walking home and saying "What are you looking at?"

Healey ran off after punching the man because he did not want to be arrested.

Healey also admitted breaching a conditional discharge imposed for a public order offence committed when he wanted to speak to his estranged girlfriend at her place of work.

She did not want to talk to him and the incident escalated into him being aggressive and abusive to one of her work colleagues.

Healey was fined £100 for the breach of the conditional discharge. He was also bound over to keep the peace for 12 months.