A man whose anger “about Jamaicans coming into his country” spilled into a violent altercation, and brought a 22-year-old man who was already on probation into Magistrate’s Court yesterday.Kenneth Leverock, who supported in court by his mother and father as well as his grandmother with whom he lives, pleaded guilty this morning in Magistrate’s Court to charges of possession of cannabis as well as assaulting a man. Crown Council Susan Mulligan told the court Mr Leverock had gone to the East West Cafe in Southampton to buy some food.“Without provocation, the defendant approached the complainant and punched him on the shoulder. He fell over a handrail, and he sustained some bruises.” After he had been detained by Police and was questioned about the incident, he asked them to tell the complainant that he was sorry.Going into more detail, she explained the complainant and the defendant had run into each on two occasions at the restaurant. “On both occasions he was upset and angry about Jamaicans coming to his country. The night before (the incident) he had been loud and aggressive. The next night it happened again. The defendant swung, and the complainant dodged, he swung again and this time made contact with him.”Mr Leverock was upset about a “particular situation”, said Ms Mulligan. He had said: “You’ve come back here again to my bar. You have the audacity to come to my bar — I’ll f*** you up.”After his arrest, Police found plant material on Mr Leverock which was later determined to be 7.2 grams of cannabis.Duty counsel Susan Moore Williams asked the Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner for a non-custodial sentence. “He has shown remorse and said he wanted to say he was sorry ... Mr. Leverock said he was sorry and pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.”She added that Mr. Leverock had been in stable employment at Works and Engineering since September 2011, and comes from a “decent” family. “His mother, father and grandfather are all here in court,” she said.Mr Leverock had been urine-tested twice in six weeks for drugs and his results were negative, and had been in anger management programmes while on probation. “Probation Services are supportive of continuing with him, so clearly he is actively engaged in the programme. He has stable employment and a stable family network — his mother, father, and grandmother are here today.“I ask for a conditional discharge so he can continue to work with Probation Services on residual issues.” However, Mr Warner said that a conditional discharge was out of the question. “We can’t continue with conditional discharges,” he said.Mr Leverock described the night of the incident from his perspective. He told Mr Warner: “Mr White came up with a friend and two women. One of the women moved my ashtray, and she wouldn’t put it back. I shouted at her.“The next night, he stood right in front of me. He looked at me in a distruct (sic) manner. So I must have pushed him. He was close to me I didn’t know what he wanted he still came up to me in a distruct (sic) manner.”Mr Warner told the defendant: “You don’t react this way in these kind of situations,” to which Mr Leverock responded: “He was right up close to me,” which led Mr Warner to point out: “In a bar or restaurant, everyone is close to each other.”“So why was he up in my face?” asked Mr Leverock.Mr Warner said: “This is the foolishness I don’t understand — how people behave. You watch too much TV — someone steps on your shoe and then someone gets shot.”Mr Leverock continued to press his point: “He stopped right by me and looked right at me in a distruct (sic) manner, so I pushed him because he was close to my face.”Ms Moore Williams said that she hoped that the Magistrate would look at the range of sentencing available, and consider a non-custodial sentence with probation. “ ... so that he can get the support he needs,” she said.Mr. Warner said: “His behaviour is inexplicable — the only explanation is that he was smoking weed still.”Mr Leverock’s mother was allowed to speak to the court, and she said her son has trust issues because he has been jumped four times, robbed and beaten. “He has trust issues because he’s been violated four times,” she said. “He doesn’t have any friends. He is all by himself all the time.”Mr. Warner said: “He has paranoia because he has smoked weed. You just cannot go around beating up people because you feel threatened.”His grandmother also spoke to the court, and reassured the Magistrate that her grandson was improving: “He has changed 80 percent since has been working — he has improved in one year and four months — he has improved immensely since he has worked with men. The men tell him the right way of getting over his anger.“This is the first time since he’s been working that he’s got into trouble,” and said she has had encouraging reports from his Works and Engineering supervisor.“I’m just asking that he be allowed to continue to work and you will never see him in this place again,” she said.His father also spoke on his son’s behalf. He said the 22-year-old had represented Bermuda in sports. “Since growing up, he has stayed away his teachings but I think he can get back to that. Please give him one more chance,” he asked Mr Warner. “And I’ll see what I can do.”Mr. Warner was able to reassure the family that he was inclined to put the defendant on probation.He ordered a specific sentence report and ordered Mr Leverock to return to court on December 3, bailing him for $2000 and one surety.