A DRIVER has been banned by magistrates after using threatening or abusive words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

Daniel Wyatt entered guilty pleas to one count of failing to provide a specimen for analysis, as the driver of a vehicle, and one count of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford this month.

The court heard from prosecutor Lauren Millichip that the 32-year-old had been asked to provide a specimen of breath when he was stopped by police in Hereford on January 11, but had failed to do so. He also behaved in an abusive way.

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He was asked to be breathalysed as part of an investigation into whether he had committed an offence, and was said to have no reasonable excuse to refuse.

Wyatt, of Frobisher Court, Hereford, was banned from driving for 40 months and sentenced to a community order where he must complete 10 days of rehabilitation activity and attend probation appointments.

He was ordered to pay prosecution costs of £135 and a £114 victim surcharge, which is used to help fund services supporting victims of crime.