A clubber's night out proved to be an expensive one after he was ordered to fork out compensation for a casino doorman he punched and damage to "bespoke handles" on a large front door. Online marketer Chris Conduit had been our with his brother and nephew when they visited Alea Casino, Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham city centre, on December 9.
Doorman Valentin Badescu saw two men who were "extremely drunk to him", said prosecutor Peter Bettany at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on Tuesday (January 17). He told the men - one being 41-year-old Conduit - they could not come in because they had too much to drink.
But they would not take "no" for an answer and "kept shouting at me", the court was told. "I told them to go home. They wouldn't be coming into the casino," Mr Badescu's statement read.
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Mr Badescu went inside and shut the door - but Conduit, of Ranelagh Grove, Wollaton, shouted at him and kicked the front door several times, snapping the metal door handle. Mr Badescu opened the door slightly to prevent any more damage - but Conduit, who claims disability allowance due to a "large pain down his right leg", thumped him with his right fist to his cheek area.
The front door was shut to keep them out and police called. The cost to replace the "bespoke handles" was £300, the court was told.
After arrest, Conduit largely went "no comment" to questions but, at the end of his interview, he was asked if there was "anything else he wanted to say?" He replied to the officer: "No, I just want to say I am sorry about the state of affairs."
Asked what he meant by that, he added: "Well, I am here. I had to much to drink." Conduit's record includes an offence of drink-driving, and a three-year community order for sexual offences, imposed before Nottingham Crown Court.
He had been on The Horizon sex offender programme, and remains on the commuity order, as well as doing rehabilitation days. After considering admitted offences of assault by beating and causing criminal damage, chairman of the magistrates, Peter Walters, sitting on the bench with a colleague, decided to leave the community order in place, but he warned Conduit: "You can't go around behaving like this; a man of your age."
A ten-week curfew was placed on Conduit from 9pm tonight until 9am, and will end on March 28, meaning he will be tagged and confined to his home. Compensation was ordered of £300 to pay for the door handles and £200 compensation for Mr Badescu.
Magistrate Mr Walters told him: "This behaviour has got to stop. An expensive night clubbing." Conduit agreed, replying: "Ridiculous."
Conduit, who is involved in sales seven-days-a-week in a family business, was represented by solicitor Jameel Malik, who had stressed his client pleaded guilty at the first stage. Conduit visited the casino with his brother and nephew, and Mr Malik alleged it had been Conduit's brother who was causing "most of the commotion" when they were refused entry.
"The defendant went there to move his brother away," added Mr Malik. He had pulled his brother and the door. A member of staff moved forward and "he assumed he was trying to attack his brother, he was not, but he (Conduit) swung out".
"It is an assault by beating - but believes it was a brush - because of the melee and how many people were involved," he added.
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