LONDON (AP) – Using a 19th-century law, a British court has fined a man 150 pounds ($215) after be admitted riding a horse while drunk.

Godfrey Blacklin pleaded guilty to a charge under the 1872 Licensing Act of being drunk in charge of a carriage horse, cattle or steam engine.

Prosecuting lawyer David Thompson told Newcastle Magistrates Court it was “not a charge you see every day.”

He said 31-year-old Blacklin was stopped by police while riding bareback in Newcastle, northeast England, in October. Officers found he was unsteady on his feet and slurring his words.

Magistrates on Friday ordered him to pay the fine and 35 pounds ($50) in costs.

New father killed on way to hospital

LONDON (AP) – British police say a man has been attacked and killed on his way to a hospital to visit his newborn son.

London’s Metropolitan Police said Friday that the 26-year-old man was stabbed to death outside a grocery store in Croydon, south London.

The man, whose name is being withheld, was traveling with his 3-year-old daughter. She was not hurt.

Policee say the man’s son was born Thursday morning and the man was stabbed later the same day. They arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the case.

in connection with the stabbing.

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