A JEALOUS reaction to text messages sent to his girlfriend cost a 21-year-old man dear, a court heard.
Blackburn magistrates heard Joshua Harley Main was given a caution by police on condition he paid for the £350 phone he snatched from the other man’s hand and threw to the floor.
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But he failed to pay the money and when the case came to court he was landed with a bill for £565.
Main, of Beckett Court, Darwen, pleaded guilty to damaging a phone belonging to Jordan Astley.
He was fined £100 with £85 costs and £35 victim surcharge and ordered to pay £350 compensation.
Jonathan Taylor, defending, said there had been a dispute between the two men because of text messages sent from the phone to his girlfriend.
“He accepts he grabbed the phone and threw it to the floor,” said Mr Taylor.
At the time of the offence Main was working on a building site but shortly after the police gave him a conditional caution the job ended and he was unable to pay the compensation, added Mr Taylor.
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