Alcoholic threatened to smash up parents’ car

A nine-litre-a-day cider drinker threatened to smash up his parents’ car and property after being thrown out of their house by his mum.

David Vincent, 45, flew off the handle a night after drinking whiskey with his dad at his folks’ home in Dene Street, Silksworth, Sunderland.

Vincent, of Somerset Cottages, Sunderland, was asked to leave after what a court heard was “an unpleasant incident”.

But the next morning, on Thursday, May 7, he was let in without his parents’ consent, South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court heard.

His mother physically turfed him out after he again began to misbehave after she returned from the shops.

Vincent has now been handed a 12-month community order.

Prosecutor Oriana Frame said: “There’s an unpleasant incident from which no charges arise. However, the defendant’s mother plucked up the courage to ask him to leave the home.

“The next morning, he was outside the house, and told her, ‘I don’t care, I’ll tell the neighbours’.

“His mother went to the shops, but someone must have let him in.

“He said, ‘I’ll just smash this car up and smash up the windows’. He did walk up to the car but didn’t do anything. There was no damage to her property.”

Greg Flaxen, defending, said: “It’s a silly incident. Mr Vincent is an alcoholic who drinks nine litres of cider on a daily basis.”

Vincent pleaded guilty to making a threat to damage or destroy property.

He was also given are straining order to not enter his parents’ home without their permission and must leave when asked.