A HOMELESS Lithuanian man accused of kneeing a PC to the thigh while drunk and causing a nuisance outside a Llandudno supermarket was fined £80 for assault.
Magistrates at Llandudno also ordered Tadas Marciukaitis, aged 34, to pay £50 compensation and £285 costs.
He admitted assaulting PC Benjamin Smith outside Llandudno’s ASDA superstore on Conway Road.
A four-week suspended jail term was imposed after the defendant also admitted being drunk in charge of a child at Pwllheli and failing to surrender to custody.
Llandudno Magistrates Court chairman Toby Prosser said Marciukaitis recognised his mistake with the child.
“We have some sympathy,” added Mr Prosser.
Alex Fitzgerald, defending, said Marciukaitis, a qualified welder, had struggled to find work as a welder while in the UK.
His life had started to “unravel” and he moved to Llandudno and lived in a tent.
The assault was “reckless.”
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