A 42-YEAR-old man has been ordered to do unpaid work after getting involved in a verbal altercation. 

Darren Leeming, of Acton Beauchamp, near Malvern, admitted an offence of using threatening, abusive, insulting words, behaviour to cause harassment, alarm, distress.

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The offence took place in Herefordshire on October 23, 2012, the court heard. 

Ian Latimer, chairman of the magistrates bench, told Leeming he was receiving a 12-month community order requiring he complete 60 hours of unpaid work. 


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Leeming was also ordered to pay costs of £135 and victim surcharge of £95. 

Leeming's offer to pay the £220 total in two instalments was accepted by magistrates.

He appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court on Friday (February 17).