A frustrated householder who assaulted a club steward after staging a litter protest has been ordered to do community service.

After a night out, Adrian Gill decided he had had enough of rubbish that had blighted his life for six years and dumped cans, packets, boxes and other litter at the entrance to Wibsey Working Men's Club.

Bradford Crown Court heard how the 36-year-old was approaching the club again with a bin liner in his hand when he was confronted by club steward James Wilby.

Mr Wilby told him the club's rubbish was put in bins on the Market Street side of the premises and invited Gill to have a look. Prosecutor John Hitchen described how the two men were walking down a snicket when Mr Wilby blacked out and ended up on the ground.

He was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary, and found to have a fractured cheekbone and a cut to his eyebrow, needing five stitches.

Gill, whose home in Tempest Green, Wibsey, backs on to a strip of disputed land between the houses and the club, told police he had only hit out because he thought Mr Wilby was going to attack him.

Gill admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the incident in December 1998, and he was ordered to do 50 hours' community service.