A 24-YEAR-OLD Chepstow man flew into a frenzy after a row with his girlfriend and did more than £3,000 worth of damage to her Lydney home, a court was told today.

Jarrod Bluck of Channel View, Chepstow, pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates Court to a charge of criminal damage.

Prosecuting lawyer Kathy Thornton said that the defendant had been out in Lydney on the night of December 2, and when he got back to his girlfriend's home at Mount Pleasant they had a row and she went to bed.

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“At 3am (she) heard a loud bang and a crash and was awoken by the defendant who was very agitated and called her a liar

“They went downstairs because (her) daughter was asleep in the bedroom next door but then the defendant went back upstairs.”

Bluck then started kicking a wall of the girl’s bedroom, picked up a Hoover and a bed frame and threw them around, the court was told.

“He came downstairs and continued damaging various items, including a television set, threw her car keys outside and then went out and damaged her car,” said the lawyer.

The woman left the flat with her daughter and spent the night at her father’s house, the court heard.

Defending lawyer Joan Hughes said: “My client is not proud of his behaviour that night and the relationship is now over.”

Referring to the incident as an “unsavoury and frenzied attack” magistrates ordered Bluck to do 50 hours of unpaid work, pay compensation of £3,194 and prosecution costs of £85.