A DRUNKEN vagrant threw a Cornish pasty at staff in a Worcester solicitors, telling them it was a bomb.

James Garden threw the food in Lumsdon Grindley solicitors in Foregate Street on Monday of this week after they refused to let him use the toilet, Worcester Magistrates Court heard.

At yesterday's hearing, Abi Nixon, prosecuting, said staff noticed he was drunk when he entered the premises.

"He threw a pasty, shouted it was a bomb and said he had a gun and was going to shoot them," she said.

"Staff didn't take it seriously and told him they knew it was a pasty, and were going to call the police.

"He then said he was with the IRA and was going to have the police shot."

The court heard how Garden, aged 54, was an itinerant who travelled around the country.

He has no fixed address, and earned his money through a small pension of £20 a week and by doing odd jobs at monasteries.

Barry Newton, defending, said Garden did not recall the incident.

"The events are events he cannot remember at all," he said.

"He is an itinerant who was making his way to Belmont Abbey in Herefordshire to do some work.

"Unfortunately, as an older man he is vulnerable to other people who prey on him and he had his rucksack stolen.

"That left him depressed and down, and as a result he drank too much."

Garden admitted being drunk and disorderly, and was fined £100.

Magistrates ordered him to spend a day in custody in lieu of the fine, which he could not pay.