A man who went on a pub rampage after being refused alcohol on the day of his dad's funeral has been barred by a judge from drinking during the Euros football tournament.

The ban on Billy Boxall from raising a glass in the forthcoming UEFA championship was imposed as part of his penalty for kicking off at The Thomas Ingoldsby Wetherspoon branch in Canterbury on August 18 last year.

His visit to the venue in Burgate, together with his brother Joe Boxall, coincided with the family cremation.

But Canterbury Crown Court heard the whistle was blown on their drinking when bar staff refused to serve them due to their heavily intoxicated state.

Rather than leaving as requested, Joe Boxall became verbally abusive and his 38-year-old sibling broke a chair and glasses before throwing a 'wet floor' cone across the pub, striking an innocent bystander.

Once outside, the unemployed groundworker smashed a front window, causing more than £500 in damage.

At Billy Boxall's sentencing hearing on May 24, Recorder Daniel Stevenson told him that although he had been in an emotional state that day, the reason for his "pathetic petulance" was binge-drinking.

Therefore, in a bid to help tackle the problem, the judge decided to hand him a boozing red card.

Ordering that an alcohol abstinence monitoring tag be fitted for 100 days - far beyond the Euros' final whistle on July 14 - Recorder Stevenson told Boxall: "The root cause of the offence was alcohol consumption combined with some very unusual and distressing circumstances you were going through on that day.

"You are not dependent on alcohol but you are clearly a binge-drinker, and the best way of dealing with that is by controlling you in a public environment."

Pointing out the implications of such a tag, which monitors alcohol through sweat, the judge added: "Mr Boxall, The Euros are coming up. You must not enter pubs and drink alcohol during that tournament."

The court heard that during his 20-minute drunken outburst and the hurling of "objects and missiles", a woman in the pub had been hit in the hand.

It was accepted however that this was a "reckless" assault rather than deliberate and no serious physical injury was caused.

Boxall, of Vauxhall Avenue, Canterbury, pleaded guilty to affray and criminal damage.

Imposing a six-month jail term suspended for 18 months, Recorder Stevenson told him he had put people in fear that day.

"You went into the Thomas Ingoldsby pub with your brother Joe. You were both heavily intoxicated," said the judge.

"In compliance with their legal duty, the bar supervisor declined to serve you and you were asked to leave. You both should have complied with that instruction.

"Instead, Joe Boxall became verbally abusive. You were initially calm, in my judgement, in the hope of getting more alcohol.

"But you then grabbed a chair and threw it onto the ground, splitting it. You then threw other objects and missiles around the pub.

"You then picked up a 'wet floor' cone and threw it across the pub, striking a customer, causing injury to her hand and damaging items behind the bar.

"You then left and smashed glasses against the main window of the pub, causing it to smash.

"This conduct took place in the middle of the afternoon when ordinary people were just trying to enjoy themselves both inside and outside the pub.

"Your conduct would have caused them to fear for their personal safety.

"It was a pathetic display of drunken petulance, on licensed premises in the middle of the day, just because you were rightly refused alcohol.

"On that day you attended the cremation of your father and I accept therefore that you would have been in a real state of distress and upset.

"But ultimately, you committed these offences because you were drunk. If you cannot consume alcohol without it affecting you in this way, you need to stop drinking it altogether.

"I intend to pass a sentence to assist you with that."

This conduct took place in the middle of the afternoon when ordinary people were just trying to enjoy themselves both inside and outside the pub...

As well as the alcohol abstinence monitoring condition, Boxall was ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.

Boxall's 13 previous convictions for 24 offences include assault, damaging property and drink-related driving offences.

But Recorder Stevenson said there was a realistic prospect of rehabilitation which allowed him to be spared prison on this occasion.

No order was made for costs or compensation.

The court heard Joe Boxall was charged with a public order offence for which he was subsequently fined during separate proceedings.