text: Facing trial: Adam Deacon (pictured outside court in January), 32, allegedly sent abusive tweets including a death threat to the Kidulthood writer . A Bafta-winning Kidulthood actor sent abusive tweets including a death threat to the film’s writer because he thought he was trying to ruin his career, a court heard today. Adam Deacon, 32, of Bethnal Green, east London, appeared in court this morning over allegations of harassment against the 2006 movie’s writer Noel Clarke on Twitter. A number of abusive tweets were sent from Deacon's account to Mr Clarke’s account from March 5 to December 19, Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court in west London was told. Tom Gill, prosecuting, said: ‘He [Deacon] referred to Mr Clarke as a bully and blamed him for trying to ruin his career. Mr Clarke said that in 2010 he viewed Mr Deacon as a friend and after this point they fell out over work.’ Referring to the Twitter posts directed at Mr Clarke’s account, he added: ‘In some cases they amounted to some death threats.’ The court heard how ‘Mr Clarke provided screenshots of the posts to the police’. Mr Gill added: ‘On December 4 he was given an official formal harassment warning by police and this was delivered in person. Despite this he continued to post messages to Mr Clarke.’ Last month the actor was sectioned under the Mental Health Act after being charged with possession of a machete in public. Police were called on January 6 to reports of a man in Bethnal Green allegedly armed with a ‘machete’ style knife and threatening members of the public. The Babylon actor missed his appearance at Thames Magistrates’ Court in east London last month and the court heard he was ‘not well enough to attend’ the hearing. 'Abusive': Deacon (left, posing with the Rising Star Award he won at the Baftas in 2012) was in court over allegations of harassment against screenwriter Noel Clarke (right) Daleks: Mr Clarke (left) in Doctor Who as Mickey, with Billie Piper as Rose and David Tennant as The Doctor . Today, wearing a blue hooded jacket, blue Nike Air trainers and blue chinos, Deacon, who also appeared in the film Ali G Indahouse, looked emotionless as he listened to the proceedings. Deacon won the Bafta Rising Star Award in 2012 for his work on his directorial debut, Anuvahood. Adam Deacon in the 2011 film Anuvahood . Deacon started acting as a child, and appeared in TV shows like Bill’s New Frock, The Bill and Ali G Indahouse. He made his breakthrough as Jay in Noel Clarke’s cult film Kidulthood, about the lives of several teenagers growing up on some of London’s most deprived estates in Ladbroke Grove and Latimer Road. Deacon appeared in Mr Clarke’s 2008 sequel Adulthood, and won the Bafta Rising Star award in 2012 for directing the urban comedy Anuvahood(above). He last appeared on TV screens in 2014 as Robbie, an unstable police firearms officer in Danny Boyle’s satirical police drama Babylon, featuring James Nesbitt. Towards the end of the hearing, Deacon asked magistrate Anne Elias if it was possible to move the date of the trial closer. He said: ‘When I do acting they won’t insure me until the trial is done. I’ve lost out on a lot of work because of it.’ After consulting with other members of the bench, she replied: ‘I’m afraid we’re stuck with that date, we do accept it’s not ideal for you. We agree a date of this trial for July 20. ‘You need to be back here in Hammersmith Magistrates at 9.30am. I do need to warn you that if you fail to attend on that date at that time that there may be a further charge against you for which you can be imprisoned. In the mean time you are on conditional bail.’ The magistrate added that Deacon - who stood in the dock - was ‘not to contact Mr Clarke or incite any of his family or friends, not to put anything on social media that is related to him.’ She said that he is ‘not to enter Kensington and Chelsea and to continue to live and sleep at the address that you have given to the court’. She asked Deacon: ‘Are you clear on what this involves?’ He replied: ‘I am.’ Deacon denies harassment without violence and is due to next appear in Hammersmith on July 20. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.
target: Adam Deacon, 32, appeared in court over allegations against Noel Clarke .
  Court hears abusive tweets were sent from actor's account to Mr Clarke .
  Some of them 'amounted to death threats' made against his former friend .
  Deacon denies harassment without violence against Kidulthood writer .