A drunk thug spotted driving through a new-build estate with a flat tyre threatened to “drop” a police officer before being wrestled to the ground.

Brennan Moffat, 23, had been out boozing before a witness saw him at the wheel of a Fiat Punto in Cheriton, Folkestone, late at night.

The person had looked out of their window after hearing what they thought was a car with a flat being driven along Aldridge Road in Taylor Wimpey’s Shorncliffe Heights development.

They heard the driver shouting at a woman in the passenger seat, assumed he was inebriated and dialled 999.

When officers arrived at the scene, Moffat, who also goes by the surname, Dyllan, started shouting and threatened to “chin” one officer, calling him a nasty name and even spitting at him.

After a woman he was with had been put in the back of a police car, Moffat wrapped his legs around the officer as he was wrestled to the floor while being arrested.

He then refused a roadside test to see if he was under the influence and later at a police station he also refused to give a blood sample for analysis.

Moffat, of Naseby Avenue, Cheriton, was later charged with obstructing police, threatening and abusive behaviour, failing to cooperate with a preliminary test and failing to provide a specimen of blood for analysis.

He pleaded guilty to all the offences on December 18 last year and was placed on an interim driving ban at the time.

A pre-sentencing report was ordered and he returned to Margate Magistrates’ Court on February 13, to hear his fate.

Julie Farbrace, prosecuting, said the witness had seen Moffat driving with the flat at about 11.15pm on Monday, May 1, last year.

They also heard him shouting aggressively at the woman in the vehicle, who moved to the driver’s seat when he got out.

Miss Farbrace said: “When officers arrived, Mr Moffat was drunk and he was unhappy she [the female with him] had been put in the police car.

“He became aggressive with officers and blew his nose to the ground and then started spitting and showing the officers aggression and he made threats to them.

“He said he would chin one officer and then said: ‘I will drop you, you ****’.”

The court also heard as officers tried to determine who had been driving the vehicle, they had requested the woman take a roadside test.

But Moffat “kicked off again” when he heard this and told her not to comply.

The prosecutor added: “He resisted officers and wrapped his legs around one officer as they were on the floor, but he was detained and he was asked to provide a saliva test.

“This was at 1am and he refused and said he had not driven.”

After arriving in custody Moffat was asked to provide a blood test and urine sample but refused.

The court was told the officer who was abused wrote a victim impact statement, saying he thought Moffat was an “aggressive” and “horrible” person.

Magistrates heard Moffat had been given a six-month sentence which had been suspended for 18 months in July last year for an affray offence. The latest offences pre-dated the affray conviction, so he wasn’t in breach of the suspended sentence.

The bench was told Moffat, who is on benefits, admitted to officers after he sobered up that he was drunk when he committed the offences.

Roger Davies defending, told the court: “Alcohol is a curse. He’s thoroughly ashamed when he’s sober.

“Alcohol and him don’t get on and he’s told me he’s learned his lesson.”

Magistrates told Moffat they were close to jailing him, but instead said they would place him on a high-level 12-month community order. It requires him to complete 200 hours of unpaid work and attend 10 rehabilitation sessions with probation. This will run alongside the suspended sentence he is already on.

He was also banned from driving for 32 months and ordered to wear an alcohol abstinence tag for nine months.

Moffat received no separate penalty for failing to comply with the preliminary test at the roadside, but his licence was endorsed.

He was also ordered to pay the police officer £100 compensation for the abuse and pay £85 court costs.