A 24-YEAR-OLD started biting his own arm after telling police if they arrested him he would 'hurt himself'.

Blackburn magistrates heard Kristian Jordan Keenan told the officers to watch him bite through his own arm and eventually had to be parva sprayed.

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Keenan, 24, of Robert Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to resisting a police officer. He was fined £75 with £85 costs and £20 victim surcharge.

Paul Huxley, defending, said there had been a public order incident and at first the police said they were going to drive Keenan home.

"Having put him in the car they then said they were going to arrest him and he became upset," said Mr Huxley. "He accepts the police behaved properly in Parva spraying him."