A REVELLER'S brush with three saucy 'policewomen' on Comic Relief night ended with him being arrested for real.

Ryan Robinson, of Higson Street, Blackburn, was battered with a plastic truncheon after meeting the women in a town centre chip shop and asking them to "make my day."

But as one of the women remonstrated with him, the bar manager at Mitton Hall Country House Hotel, Whalley, flailed his arms around, sending her tray of chips and gravy over her hair and face.

Robinson, 26, had charges of assault and threatening behaviour dismissed by Blackburn mag-istrates when he agreed to be bound over in the sum of £100 to keep the peace for six months.

Today he said: "It started as a bit of fun and I can laugh about it now but in between it was an absolute nightmare.

"I have never been in trouble with the law before and to face serious charges like that was a big worry.

"Convictions for disorderly behaviour could have affected my whole future.

"I am just glad it is all over but I think I will stay in next Comic Relief night and watch the fun on the telly."

Judith Balderstone, prosecuting, said the incident had started in the Happy Haddock chip shop, Darwen Street, at the end of Comic Relief night on Friday, March 11.

Daniel King, defending, said that on seeing the three officers it had been a case of "hello, hello, hello".

"Their uniforms were far from the regulation," said Mr King. "Their skirts were extremely short and they were displaying much more of themselves than would normally be expected."

He said there was some light-hearted banter and Robinson invited the girls to make his day and arrest him.

"He didn't realise how prophetic those words would be," said Mr King.

"One of the girls took exception to something that was said and started to batter him with her truncheon in an imitation of police brutality.

"He was beaten out of the shop and when one of the girls started throwing her chips at him he knocked her tray out of her hands.

"At that stage, my client made good his escape but he returned later to find his friends only to be met and arrested by a real woman police officer.

"For his trouble he spent the night in a police cell."

Mr King said his client had always denied assault and threatening behaviour but would have accepted a binding over order had it been offered in March.

"It all sounds quite amusing but for a young man with no previous convictions to be facing serious charges is no laughing matter," said Mr King.

"I would have thought that three young ladies who go out dressed as saucy police officers could be deemed to be inviting the odd comment."