A WORKINGTON woman called the police after her son began banging on her door and yelling insults, a court heard.

Scott Foster, 32, was never prosecuted for his bad behaviour towards his mother on the evening of March 11 this year but he was later charged with cannabis possession and resisting a police officer, Carlisle Crown Court heard.

The charges resulted because, despite him having moved on by the time police arrived at his mother’s address, they did catch up with him – and found that he was carrying a ‘golf-ball sized” lump of cannabis.

“His behaviour was erratic, and he was seemingly under the influence of something,” prosecutor Brendan Burke told Carlisle Crown Court. The police officers also noted how Foster’s pupils were dilated.

“The police officers assumed that the 'something' was cannabis," continued the barrister.

“While they were trying to lead him away to the van, he was being aggressive.” Foster also tried to trip up the police officers. He was eventually subdued by officers using pava spray.

But even when he was inside the police van, he continued to be aggressive, yelling that the officers should let him out otherwise he would “punch their lights out.”

The defendant pleaded guilty to cannabis possession and resisting a police officer. The court heard that Foster, of Mountain View, Harrington, Workington, had 37 previous offences on his record.

They were mostly driving offences, but also included theft, arson, an assault causing actual bodily harm and numerous public order offences. It was accepted that he had mental health difficulties due to a brain injury.

“He’s clearly a man who is troubled,” added the prosecutor.

The case was sent to Carlisle Crown Court because at the time of the offences Foster was under a two-year suspended sentence imposed for serious driving offences.

Recorder Julian Shaw told Foster that he had behaved very badly when he went to his mother’s home that day. But the judge said he was aware of the mental health difficulties Foster faced as a result of his brain injury.

Recorder Shaw said he would not active the suspended jail term. Instead, he fined Foster £50 for the cannabis possession offence,£150 for resisting a police constable and £100 for breaching the suspended sentence order.