Daniel Copley, 22, celebrated his birthday final yr by consuming with mates till he was drunk, Tom Jackson, prosecuting informed York Crown Court docket.

He went to his girlfriend’s flat the place he noticed she had messages on her cellphone from her ex-partner.

That began an argument, throughout which he broke each her bed room tv, value £250, and the £900 tv in her lounge.

She rang police saying Copley had “smashed her home up, her home was the other way up,” mentioned Mr Jackson.

Stonemason apprentice Copley, of  Spruce Shut, New Earswick, pleaded responsible to felony injury. He was ordered to put on an alcohol abstinence tag for 60 days and do 15 days’ rehabilitative actions underneath a 12-month neighborhood order. He should additionally pay the lady £1,150 compensation.

His barrister Rhianydd Clement mentioned he was a binge drinker however  needed to cut back his consuming. He hadn’t deliberate to break the televisions however he had behaved recklessly throughout the argument.

The girlfriend had made extra severe allegations which he had denied and of which he had been acquitted by a jury this autumn.

Whereas ready for his trial, his psychological well being had suffered and was now on medicine for despair and nervousness. His psychological well being had improved after he was acquitted.