A DRUNK threatened a police community support officer with a broken bottle in Wrexham town centre.

Paul Evans, 50, was drunk in the bandstand at Llwyn Isaf, the grassed area outside the Guildhall and the Library.

He was behaving in a bizarre way, was talking to himself and was erratic, North East Wales Magistrates Court was told.

Police back up was called and Evans held the bottle up and then broke it over his own head.

But he then went on to hold the shattered bottle by the neck and pointed it at the officer in a threatening manner, the Mold court heard.

Evans, of no fixed abode, admitted a public order offence on Friday afternoon and being in breach of his criminal behaviour order.

He was jailed at the weekend for a total of 22 weeks – 16 weeks for the offences and six weeks was activated from a previous suspended sentence.

Magistrates said he was a nuisance who had now breached his criminal behaviour order for the seventh time.

They said he had been given ample opportunity to hand the bottle over and leave peaceably.

Prosecutor Helen Hall said the officer was called to the bandstand at 2.30pm by a town centre warden who said Evans was drinking from a large bottle of vodka, something which was prohibited in the town centre.

Evans was highly intoxicated and when told he could not drink there he replied: “How are young going to stop me?”

Told the bottle would be taken off him, he said he would have to knock the officer around.

He held the bottle and moved towards the officer in a threatening manner.

Evans was talking to himself as he went to a car park talking to himself, swearing, and when told to put the bottle down he grabbed the neck and smashed it on his own head.

He clenched his fists and took up a martial arts stance.

Evans made a gun gesture with his fingers towards the police.

He was taken to the ground and arrested and spat in the direction of police as he was arrested.

Magistrates heard he had extensive previous convictions, had breached the criminal behaviour order previously and was on a suspended sentence for doing so.

Defence solicitor Elzbeth Kenny said her client had not had the best start in life.

When he was a babe in arms his mother had put gin and temazepam in his milk to help him sleep.

He had been addicted to alcohol and drugs for most of his adult life.

As far as he was concerned, he was minding his own business having a drink and talking to himself when he was approached.

He did not think he was posing much of a problem and was under the influence of alcohol.

Evans, said Miss Kenny, accepted he should have handed the bottle over.

He believed at the time that he was creating more harm to himself than anyone else and had smashed the bottle over his own head.

Miss Kenny said he conceded he held the bottle by the neck in a way which would have been perceived threatening.

But he wanted to make an official complaint because it was his case that police had been extremely heavy handed towards him.

It was his case that at one stage there were four police officers on top of him, his arms and legs had been bent back.