Angry scenes broke out in a court yesterday as a teenager accused of threatening criminal damage to a pub was remanded in custody.

Stephen Young, 19, had to be handcuffed by two police officers and a security guard at Didcot Magistrates Court as he hugged his mum and told magistrates he wasn't going to prison.

His mum, Christine Nuttall, who had been sitting at the back of the courtroom with another man and had already been warned to keep quiet during the hearing, screamed abuse at prosecutor Shelley Cranshaw.

She begged police not to take her son away.

Young, whose home address was given as the Lamb and Flag, off the A420 in Southmoor, where his mum is landlady, is accused of threatening criminal damage to the pub on May 13.

He is also charged with failing to comply with bail conditions imposed by the court on May 21, by behaving in a disruptive way at a bail hostel.

Magistrates rejected an application for bail by Sabeeha Khan, acting for Young, and committed him to crown court.

Mrs Khan led Mrs Nuttall, who was crying hysterically, into the public waiting area. The defendant's mum asked if there was any way she could appeal against the magistrates' decision.

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