Two men plunged through a plate glass window at a pizza parlour after an altercation, dragging a third with them, a court at Harrogate heard.

Andrew Ibbotson, 20, admitted using threatening behaviour in the late night incident at a fast food bar, in Station Parade, Harrogate, and was fined £120 with £70 costs.

Presiding magistrate Gillian Horrox told him: "Your action put others in fear and danger and caused injury to others."

Prosecutor Caroline Midgley said Ibbotson, of Arkendale Road, Staveley, near Knaresborough, got into a struggle with another customer, Paul Morris, and the pair went through a plate glass window and out into the street, taking another man, Oliver Lang, with them on the plunge.

All three were injured by the glass and so was a fourth man.

Mr Morris refused hospital treatment but Ibbotson and Mr Lang had to have stitches.

Mrs Midgley said the pizza bar owner was claiming £2,924 in compensation for the window and £880 for lost trade after being forced to close for three days. But Mrs Horrox made no compensation order, saying it was a matter for the civil courts.

In mitigation, Geoffrey Rogers said Ibbotson had given up his job with a graphic design company four weeks ago and was being supported by his family who gave him £50 a week pocket money.

He had left a nightclub before his girlfriend, to get food, and had been verbally aggressive before he was punched two or three times.

Morris, aged 40, of Chatsworth Place, Harrogate, pleaded not guilty to a threatening behaviour charge and was bailed until April 30.

Updated: 10:40 Friday, April 06, 2001