another appearance before the bench the next day.

Richard L. Brangman, 35, who caused the disturbance on Tuesday afternoon, was on Wednesday up before one of the magistrates whose work he had disrupted.

"Far too many people don't have proper respect for the courts around here,'' he was told by acting senior magistrate the Wor. John Judge. "You have avoided going to prison by the skin of your teeth.'' Brangman, of Cherry Dale, Smith's, admitted wilfully misbehaving while courts were sitting and refusing to leave when told by Police. He was fined $700.

Insp. Peter Duffy, prosecuting, said Brangman stood in the foyer of the court building, pointed at some white people and shouted: "White people bring cocaine in and give it to us black people to sell.'' Asked by Police to be quiet, he replied: "I'm a member of the public and I don't have to be quiet.'' On being told to leave, he said: "I have a 2.30 court case and I ain't leaving.'' Brangman was warned and then arrested, said Insp. Duffy. He was taken away in handcuffs, shouting and swearing, and had to be forcibly put in a cell.

Brangman told the court: "I was under a lot of pressure and stress. Some serious bad things have been happening to me. I apologise for disturbing the courts. It won't happen again.'' He denied cursing, but Mr. Judge told him: "I heard you myself.''