A widower from Bramley, still grieving for his wife seven months after her death from a brain haemorrhage, drank to drown his sorrows and then shattered a café window, a court was told.
* Click here to sign up to free news and sport email alerts from Bramley Today.Magistrates at Harrogate heard how 35-year-old Stewart Lee, of Poplar Grove, had drunk 12 pints on August 13 before staggering out of Crabtree's Bar in Station Parade at 8.30pm.
* Click here to make Bramley Today your friend on Facebook.But according to prosecutor Zoe Simpson witnesses saw him agitated and apparently angry. Lee was seen to have smashed a window in nearby Cambridge Café.
When Lee, 35, pleaded guilty to causing damage his solicitor Peter Olley said he had been suffering from depression since the death of his wife in January.
''He still has not quite come to terms with it but he deals with it be drinking,'' he said.
He had been bailed to appear in court last Tuesday but had believed his appearance was three days later. When he realised his mistake he handed himself in to police and was kept in a cell from 1pm on Wednesday.
Court chairman Gillian Horrox conditionally discharged Lee for a year on the damage offence and ordered payment of £45 costs.
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