A MAN who got caught up in an alcohol-fuelled town centre disturbance has been fined more than £500.
Paul Mail, 27, was fined £250 and ordered to pay £263 court costs after he admitted being involved in an affray in Northallerton on August 31 last year.
Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday that Mail was with a friend who picked a fight with a group of people in the town's South Parade after leaving a nightclub at 2.30am.
The other man, who was dealt with at an earlier hearing, punched one of the group to the ground and attacked him, while Mail became involved in what he told police was a little bit of a scuffle.
Judge Anthony Briggs said he accepted that Mail, who lives in Garton Grove, Leeds, and works as an HGV technician in Northallerton, did not throw any punches during the fracas.
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