A MAN has been ordered to pay compensation after he caused damage to a Premier Inn hotel in Dorset.

Kane Jackson Rumball, 29, pleaded guilty to a single charge of criminal damage when he appeared in the dock at Poole Magistrates’ Court on July 23.

The court heard that on October 24, 2020, Rumball damaged a mirror and wall to the value of £100 belonging to Premier Inn at the chain’s site in Bailey Drive, Christchurch.

Rumball, of Stubbs Lane, Braintree, was discharged conditionally for six months, ordered to pay £100 compensation, a £22 surcharge and £85 costs.