A MELLOR company director who assaulted his neighbour and two workmen because he was upset at the noise they were making has been made subject to a suspended prison sentence.
Blackburn magistrates heard the men were removing a fireplace and started work early on a Sunday morning.
And when Philip Ponsonby went round to complain, after he had been to the pub, things became heated.
The court heard Ponsonby punched his neighbour, Mark Rolston, and when the workmen went to see what was happening they were also assaulted.
Ponsonby, 43, of St Mary’s Gardens, Mellor, pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Rolston causing him actual bodily harm, assaulting Arthur Garnett causing him actual bodily harm and assaulting Graham Tate.
He was sentenced to six months in prison suspended for 12 months, ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work and pay £300 compensation to each victim and £85 costs.
The court previously heard that Ponsonby and Mr Rolston had been neighbours for 16 years and had never got on.
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