A FATHER and daughter at daggers drawn found themselves standing in the same Crown Court dock yesterday.

Geoffrey Platt, 53, and Amanda Platt, 20, admitted threatening behaviour when they were said to have set about each other with golf clubs taken from a display outside a second-hand shop in Scarborough.

York Crown Court was told, by prosecutor Richard Scott, that it was a chance meeting between the two, who had been hostile towards each other for some time, and that Amanda Platt, of Tennyson Avenue, Scarborough, "set about" her father using the golf club as a weapon.

However, Geoffrey Platt, of the town's Trafalgar Road, managed to disarm his daughter and, in turn, smacked her across the head, added Mr Scott.

She picked up another golf club and smashed his car windows before pouring a can of oil over the vehicle.

Mr Scott said each blamed the other for starting the trouble, and that it stemmed from a long-standing family dispute.

Judge Paul Hoffman told the pair, who were parted by the dock officer: "It is pretty abysmal, is it not, that a daughter and father appear in the same dock still, apparently, not talking to each other.

"I don't want to lock either of you up, but I think Amanda Platt is in need of some anger management lessons."

He placed her on probation for two years, with an order that she undertook such a course.

Geoffrey Platt was ordered to do 140 hours' community service.