A CARLISLE reveller who threatened to spit at police during a drunken night out just weeks after his release from prison told a court he had no recollection of the trouble he caused.

Jordan Batty, 23, found himself in hot water on October 14 when, prosecutor Lee Dacre told Carlisle Magistrates’ Court, he had been on Botchergate.

Police had been contacted by door staff from one bar. “They had seen him urinating in the street,” said Mr Dacre.

Batty was moved on but repeatedly came back to the area over the course of the next hour.

“He was clearly drunk and began swearing aggressively towards the police officers,“ said Mr Dacre. “He was asked repeatedly to leave the area and, had he done so, that would have been the end of it.

“But he did not do so. He continued to be aggressive and threatened to spit at officers. That behaviour continued in Carlisle custody.”

In court Batty, of the city’s Raffles Avenue, pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly.

District judge John Temperley heard he had a number of previous offences on his record. This included a wounding crime for which he had been handed a lengthy jail term at Preston Crown Court in December, 2021.

Earlier that year Batty had been sentenced for assaults on emergency workers.

And in September, 2020, he was punished for a public order offence along with one assault on a PC and obstructing two officers. These charges arose out of a noisy, late night dispute during which Batty had resisted violently when police tried to assault him.

He had tried to spit at officers and bite them as attempts were made to put him into a secure van.

Asked by the judge about his bad behaviour earlier this month, Batty said: “I literally do not remember anything. I was going to go not guilty because I don’t remember what went on.

“I woke up in the police station and asked what happened.”

When asked how he felt on hearing the facts of his drunken conduct, Batty — who spoke of being released from custody in late July — responded: “Disappointed, to be honest.”

He was fined £100 by the district judge, who told him: “You need to be very careful if you go out getting so drunk you don’t know what you are doing. You could find yourself in even more trouble.”