A MAN has pleaded guilty to three offences. Nicholas Hufton, of Duke Street, Whitehaven, appeared at North and West Cumbria Magistrates Court on Friday (March 5), charged with damaging an internal and external door, assaulting a police officer, and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. On February 4, the 40-year-old damaged a £500 door, assaulted a police officer by beating him, and grabbed and threw a Patterdale Terrier puppy, causing it to hit its head on a door. Hufton s guilty plea was taken into consideration by the court, and he was instructed to pay a total of £325 compensation, a £95 victim surcharge, and £85 court costs – a total of £505.