West Ham United defender James Tomkins has been fined for assaulting a police officer.
The Daily Mail says he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police constable, being drunk and disorderly in a public place and obstructing a constable outside the Sugar Hut nightclub on the night of December 21.
Martin Everett, chair of the bench at Southend Magistrates' Court, Essex, told him "it is a late guilty plea but it has saved the court a trial and witnesses".
Tomkins was fined £3,500 for the assault and was ordered to pay £3,785 court costs, £200 compensation to the police officer and a £120 victim surcharge.
He was told there would be no further penalty for the other offences.
