A MAN given community service for drug dealing committed another offence while doing his unpaid work.

Haydon Griffiths was ordered to do 250 hours of community work after being found with about £900 of cocaine and cannabis at his mum’s house in March 2008. He was given the punishment after admitting possession with intent to supply.

But while carrying out unpaid work at the Northmoor Trust’s Project Timescape near Wittenham Clumps he abused one of his supervisors.

Prosecutor Matthew Walsh said Griffiths, of Falcon Close, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, was asked to leave the site by a female supervisor who believed he was not working properly.

Mr Walsh said the 21-year-old responded by threatening to slash the woman’s tyres and insulting her.

He added: “It got as far as pushing her, going red in the face, clenching his fist. She was in real fear.

“He took off his boots and threw them into a tree, he pushed a table over and threw his high-visibility jacket to the ground.”

Griffiths’ barrister said he disputed some of the alleged insults but admitted he was in the wrong.

Griffiths, who has six previous convictions, admitted using threatening behaviour at a hearing at Oxford Crown Court on Friday. His original unpaid work requirement was scrapped and he was given 12 months’ supervision.