A Ronan Keating fan who threatened a hotel manager after she complained about his loud music has been ordered to do 130 hours of unpaid work.
Alan Henry stormed into the Express by Holiday Inn on Chapel Street, Aberdeen and confronted the manager who reported the deafening volume of the Irish singer’s songs.
The 50-year-old angrily pointed his finger at the woman and demanded to know why she had called the police.
When the hotel boss tried to explain that it could have been anyone who called the police, Henry continued to rant and threatened to “come back and get her”.
The heated confrontation, which left the “distressed” woman in tears, led to Henry’s arrest, Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told.
‘Mr Henry is very sorry’
Henry, of Chapel Street, Aberdeen, previously pled guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, around 5am on May 10 2020.
He also admitted another charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner during an earlier incident in Sainsbury’s on Union Street, where he shook a stick at staff.
Fiscal depute Tom Procter told the previous hearing that the hostile incident happened around 4.50pm on April 11.
“The accused brandished his metal stick at the staff member there and shouted ‘come on then’ in an aggressive and threatening manner,” the fiscal depute explained.
Henry further admitted separate charges of breaching an antisocial behaviour order, vandalism, and stalking his neighbours.
He had faced other charges – including operating a CD player and speakers so as to give another person reasonable cause for annoyance and failing to stop when requested by police – but Henry’s not guilty pleas were accepted.
In the dock for sentencing
Henry returned to the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Thursday, to be sentenced for his “entirely unacceptable” bad behaviour.
His defence solicitor John Hardie said: “Mr Henry is very sorry. He has something of a history of mental health difficulties.
“He appreciates and understands his behaviour was entirely unacceptable.
“His perception is, he was, in some way, provoked into acting in the way he did by the behaviour of others.
“He appreciates his response to the perceived provocation is irrational.”
As an alternative to custody, Sheriff Ian Wallace ordered Henry to complete 130 hours of unpaid work and be supervised for 18 months.
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