A 35-YEAR-OLD man threw a stone through the windscreen of a lorry as it was being driven round a motorway exit roundabout, a court was told.
Blackburn magistrates heard that Ian Gibbons then head butted a police officer who found him lying at the side of the road where the incident had occurred.
Gibbons, off Pritchard Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and police assault. He was made subject to a community rehabilitation order for 12 months after the court heard glowing reports about his progress since becoming involved with Blackburn's THOMAS project (Those on the margins of society.)
The court had previously heard that Gibbons had gone to see his daughter shortly after his release from prison and had got drunk when there were problems with access.
Clare Knight, defending, said that since the incident Gibbons had completed the first four weeks of a 16 week programme organised by THOMAS.
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