A DRUNKEN drill worker who made a suggestive remark to a schoolboy in a Stourport pub has been given a two-year community order and made to pay £863 costs.
He has to register as a sex offender for five years.
Darren Spoors was convicted after a two-day trial at Worcester Crown Court in February of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Spoors, 42, of Clavering Place, Stanley, County Durham, was staying at the Swan Hotel in Stourport when he approached a 15-year-old boy at the nearby Black Star pub.
He was alleged to have asked the boy to go to his room for sex but the suggestion left the boy nervous and shaking.
Spoors, whose job was drilling for methane gas at refuse tips, claimed it was a flippant remark which was common parlance in his job.
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