A COUNTY Durham man will have to pay compensation after making threats on a train.

Gary Lee Herbert Butterfield, from Ferryhill, pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words on the LNER service between Newcastle and York on April 23.

The 36-year-old appeared at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court on Monday, June 6.

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Butterfield, of Bessemer Street, was facing a charge of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause persons to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against them.

He also admitted intent to harass, alarm or distress another person in relation to an incident in Newcastle on the same day.

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Magistrates told him to pay a total of £300 in compensation to six victims.

He was also made the subject of a community order and will have to complete 20 days of rehabilitation activity, with five days imposed in addition to a racially aggravated element.

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