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Cricketer admits abuse to police was ‘a mistake’

Well-known Cup Match cricketer Christopher Douglas managed to escape conviction on charges he cursed at police when caught riding an unlicensed and uninsured bike.Officers spotted the Bermuda international batsman riding a Honda in St David’s at 2.50pm on January 6.Pc Adrian George spoke to the 21-year-old Somerset cricketer at the Double Dip and informed him of the offences.Douglas, a business student at Bermuda College, became verbally abusive and aggressive.According to prosecutor Takiyah Burgess, he shouted: “You guys are c**nts, you are p***ies, and I’m not signing no f***ing ticket.”He also asked: “You arrested any criminals today? What about those boys shooting up the place in the west?”Douglas, from St David’s, pleaded guilty at Magistrates’ Court to using offensive words in a public place.He told Magistrate Juan Wolffe: “I was taking a bike to my girlfriend. I was under the impression it was already insured; I didn’t know it needed to have a sticker on it or anything like that. It was paid two days later.”He told the magistrate he wants to go overseas to study. When Mr Wolffe commented “you seem like a sensible man”, and inquired why he behaved that way, Douglas replied: “I don’t know, it was a mistake.”Mr Wolffe chided: “Now you might have a criminal conviction that prevents you going to school. You’re jeopardising your future.”However, he then told Douglas he would give him a conditional discharge, which means he will not have a criminal conviction against his name unless he commits a further offence in the next 12 months.“I think you’re a man of promise,” he said. “I think it’s a stupid mistake. I hope it won’t happen again.”