A FORMER teacher who stole £8,000 from a local history group to fund his alcohol addiction has breached a suspended sentence order by committing three further offences.

Daniel Moorhouse, 40, was treasurer of the Keighley & District Local History Society when he took money given to the group from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

In June last year, he was sentenced at Bradford Crown Court to 15 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, for five charges of theft and one charge of forging a cheque.

The grant was earmarked to investigate the history of the old police station in North Street, Keighley, but Moorhouse transferred the money to his personal account and made a series of withdrawals from a cash machine.

Moorhouse, of Low Laithe Fold, Laycock, Keighley, was also ordered to perform 180 hours of unpaid work, given a four-month curfew with an electronic tag, and told to pay a £120 victim surcharge.

Yesterday, he was back at the Crown Court where he was due to be sentenced for offences of using threatening words and behaviour, assaulting PC Roy Whiting by beating him, and doing £220 damage to a taxi windscreen.

His barrister, Stephen Wood, said Moorhouse had attended to see his probation officer for a pre-sentence report but she was unwell and unable to prepare it.

Judge Jonathan Rose adjourned sentencing until August 20.

Moorhouse was rebailed to see another probation officer.