A MAN from Wrexham has been penalised for three offences after a knife incident at a Co-operative store in Flintshire.

Police were called to the Co-op's Leeswood store on Sunday evening where they detained a man and woman.

It led to Paul Loose, 28, of Tan Y Coed, Caia Park, being charged with three offences.

He admitted criminal damage to the glass pane of a door at the Co-op in Leeswood, assaulting Laura Nicholas and breaching a Domestic Violence Protection Order.

Appearing at North East Wales Magistrates Court at Mold, he was fined £50 for criminal damage and ordered to pay£100 each in compensation to two Co-op members of staff.

He was also made the subject of a community order for a year and told to pay £85 in court costs and an £85 victim support charge.

Prosecutor James Neary told the Mold court it was a domestic incident.

Loose was followed into the store by Miss Nicholas who was carrying a knife and she then made threats that “she was going to stab him”.

Young women staff members at the store were “terrified” and they had to barricade themselves in a back room.

CCTV later showed Loose assaulting Miss Nicholas and throwing her to the floor and stamping on her head.

He said Miss Nicholas was also arrested on suspicion of affray.

Melissa Griffiths, defending, said Lewis was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and he was not thinking clearly, but added: “You have to put it into context with her (Nicholas’) behaviour.