A MAN who called at a late-night garage for some cigarettes ended up being attacked with an iron bar, a court was told.

Burnley magistrates heard how Andrew John Alexander Davis, 43, got arrested but had been injured and was agitated and upset.

Davis, of Gill Street, Burnley, admitted breaching the peace and was bound over in the sum of £50 for six months. The prosecution offered no evidence on an allegation of threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.

Andy Robinson, prosecuting, said the defendant, who had been in the shop at Kitchens Garage on Trafalgar Street, Burnley, had an altercation with some men on the forecourt.

The garage security guard saw Davis going back towards the shop. He said he had been hit, appeared cut and wanted police called.

The security guard told Davis he did not want him to go in the shop and the defendant aimed a punch at him. The guard grabbed hold of Davis, pulled his arm up his back and detained him on the floor until he was arrested.

Dermot Woodhead, defending, said Davis had been racially abused on the forecourt. When he went to the group of men in a car to see why they had made their comment, he was struck with an iron bar.

Davis suffered an injury to his forehead and not surprisingly was upset. One of the people responsible ran into the shop.

Mr Woodhead said at that point, the defendant had done nothing wrong but the security guard was not aware of what had happened and refused to let him in the shop.