World heavyweight boxing champion Herbie Hide has been ordered to carry out 60 hours of community service after admitting using threatening behaviour towards two police officers.

Norwich Magistrates Court heard that Hide, who regained the World Boxing Organisation version of the heavyweight crown in June, threw a punch at a policewoman which missed.

He also pushed a policeman in the face with his right hand, the court heard.

The incident took place after Hide, 26, was stopped while driving his Bentley in his home town of Norwich in July.

Magistrates in Norwich ordered Hide, who admitted the charge at a hearing earlier this month, to pay each officer £50 compensation and £50 costs.

The court is thought to have taken into account the fact that before the offence took place Hide had spent the day at the bedside of his cancer-stricken brother Alan, 11, who has since died.

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