A MAN who broke into a wine bar and helped himself to nearly £150 worth of drink phoned police to tell them what he had done, a court was told.

Stuart Porter also called his mates to tell them about the crime and threatened a passer-by before he was beaten up by his own friends.

Porter, aged 20, admitted burglary of alcohol worth £142.47 and a public order offence at Worcester Magistrates Court on a basis of plea that was not read out in open court.

Matt Dodson, prosecuting, said at about midnight on Sunday, July 12, Porter called police to say he had broken a window of the Chancer’s Bar in King Charles Court, Evesham, and smashed a pane of glass in the door. Mr Dodson said a witness also saw Porter inside holding a number of bottles of alcohol. He said: “She then saw him again and he said to her, ‘Help me I’ve just robbed Chancer’s Bar.’”

Mr Dodson said Porter phoned his friends who he had left in a nearby nightclub and told them he had taken a bottle of Jack Daniels but had put it back.

Porter then pushed Adrian Lewis, a former Chancer barman, who was passing, and chased him down an alleyway.

Mr Dodson added: “Subsequently, his friends assaulted him, knocking him to the floor.”

Susie Duncan, defending, said Porter, of Stratford Road, Honeybourne, near Evesham, had played for Badsey Football Club and had drunk far too much afterwards.

She said: “He was absolutely drunk. He was staggering. He can’t remember the phone call to the police but accepts it is from his mobile phone.”

Ms Duncan said Porter had learning difficulties but had stopped drinking and now worked six days a week at a full time job where he was well regarded.

District judge David Goodman sentenced him to 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered him to pay £125 compensation to the bar and £85 prosecution costs.