A DOORMAN stopped on his way home from work in Darwen assaulted two police officers after he had been handcuffed.

Blackburn magistrates heard that Paul Anthony Sewell shoved one officer against a car and when another intervened, he punched him two-handed in the stomach.

After his arrest, an officer securing Sewell’s car found a truncheon.

Sewell, 39, of Coronation Street, Wigan, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen for analysis and possessing an offensive weapon.

He was convicted after trial of the police assaults.

He was ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work, made subject to a curfew between 9pm and 6am, Sunday to Thursday for three months, banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to pay £50 compensation to one officer, £100 to the other and pay £250 costs.

Clare Knight, defending, said Sewell had been working as a doorman on the night he was stopped.

“He accepts there was an altercation but denies there was any deliberate assault,” said Miss Knight.