File photo dated 22/10/14 of a Police officer, as according to new figures, some of the UK's biggest police forces have recorded a rise in the number of violent homophobic crimes this year, with hundreds of assaults on gay and lesbian people reported
A MAN has been handed a curfew after threatening police officers.
James Hendren, 63, of Egerton Court in Barrow, admitted that he used abusive or insulting words towards police officers in Whitehaven on March 15.
At South Cumbria Magistrates' Court, the defendant was given a 7pm to 7am curfew for 12 weeks and told pay a £90 victim surcharge and £85 costs.
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