A MAN who became involved in a drunken New Year’s Day fight has been fined by magistrates.

Reuben Benjamin Hall, of Glynnor Estate, Gellilydan, Blaenau Ffestiniog, had been drinking on New Year’s Eve when he began scrapping with two men at the Venu nightclub in Pwllheli.

Police were called to the nightclub at 2.10am on Friday, 1 January, following reports of a disturbance.

The 20-year-old was arrested along with the two other men and CCTV footage later showed him to be behaving in an aggressive manner.

At a hearing at Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court, on Friday, prosecutor Diane Williams told justices that the security camera footage showed Hall to be “throwing punches towards one of the other arrested males”.

When interviewed by police and asked how drunk he was on a scale of one to 10, Hall told officers he was “10 out of 10”.

“He couldn’t recall anything of the incident,” said Miss Williams. “Only bits of his arrest.”

The two other men were cautioned for their part in the incident, the prosecutor added.

The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of using threatening behaviour with the intent to cause fear of violence.

When magistrates asked Hall, who was unrepresented in court, if he wished to address them, he said: “I’m very sorry about what happened and it won’t happen again.”

He added: “I don’t go out a lot and I can’t remember most of that night.

“I only realised what I’d done when I watched the video.”

Sentencing Hall, chair of magistrates Siwan Jones told him: “This was very silly. I don’t want to see you again in court.”

He was fined £175 and ordered to pay £85 in court costs and a £20 victim surcharge.