A Devonshire teen was sentenced to two years’ probation for resisting arrest following a public brawl.John Seymour, 18, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to one count of violently resisting arrest. Crown counsel Tawana Tannock said police responded to a report of a fight at a party at Gombey’s restaurant in St George’s in the early hours of October 8.The officers said Seymour ran from the club, cursing at them as he went. They followed him, cautioning him not to use offensive words, and checked his record.The officers discovered Seymour had an outstanding warrant and informed him he was going to be arrested.Seymour insisted he didn’t have any warrants and kept pulling his arms away from the officers to avoid being handcuffed.Once handcuffed he continued to resist, pulling against the officers as they attempted to take him to the police car. The efforts caused one of the officers to trip and suffer a minor injury.Once in the car, the officers noticed that Seymour had a head wound and took him to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for treatment.Yesterday Seymour admitted he put up some resistance to being arrested but denied swearing at the officers.He said he went to the club for a friend’s birthday and was not involved in the fight that broke out. He said that at one point someone struck him in the head with a cane, at which time he and a friend had to leave the club to seek medical attention.Seymour said he told the officers about his head injury and resisted their efforts only because he wanted to get it looked at.Noting a prior conviction for using offensive words to officers, Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said Seymour had already been warned about his attitude to police.Seymour replied: “I changed my life on Friday. I gave my life back to the Lord on Friday.”A representative from Court Services said Seymour, who was already on probation, has been following his conditions and doing well apart from this incident.Mr Warner said: “Before you gave your heart to the Lord, I told you to stop this foolishness.“I’m very sceptical of these jailhouse conversions; this court. All of a sudden, because he is here a second time, he has given his life to the Lord.”Mr Warner sentenced Seymour to 24 months’ probation and put him on curfew between 9pm and 6am.“He hasn’t been supervised before by his parents or anybody else. That is why he has been getting into trouble,” the magistrate added.