A DRUNKEN man smashed up a neighbour’s car in Malvern using a child’s bike and a scooter.

Calvin Taylor, aged 37, appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court, admitting two counts of criminal damage, three of obstructing a constable in the execution of his or her duty and one of failing to answer bail.

He was shouting and swearing at his partner’s address at Five Oaks Close, Malvern, before the incident on Saturday, September 29.

Adrian Jones, prosecuting, said a female neighbour heard Taylor making threats about a man formerly involved with his partner while the man’s son was present.

Taylor, described as ‘angry and scowling’ swore at her and called her a grass after she tried to get the children to go inside.

Mr Jones said: “She watched as the defendant picked up her son’s bike with both hands, swinging it around his head before hitting it over her boyfriend’s VW Golf.

“He then threw that bike on the floor and picked up a child’s scooter and struck the windscreen of the same car, causing it to shatter.”

The damage itself was valued at £2,000 and the insurance excess was £850.

The bike would have cost £150 to repair but the family did not believe it was worth it as the bike only cost £154.97, almost as much as it would cost to fix it.

When police came to arrest Taylor, now of Greenhill Road, Handsworth in Birmingham, they found him hiding behind an upstairs bathroom door and he resisted arrest.

Mr Jones said: “He was tensed up and said ‘don’t touch me, I’m a marine!’ He had to be taken to the floor but got to his feet and officers tried to bring him down with knee strikes and eventually deployed CS spray.

Officers were again called to Five Oaks Close in Malvern on Thursday, November 1, following reports of a domestic dispute and Taylor had to be taken to the floor while “shouting obscenities and refusing to comply”.

Susie Duncan, defending, said: “Mr Taylor is the first to acknowledge he has got himself in a terrible mess in his personal life which has impacted on his job and accommodation. He tells me drink has been an issue for some considerable time. He accepts he was drunk.”

She said he believed the neighbours had been ‘interfering in his personal life’.

Magistrates gave him a 21- week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and ordered to complete 60 hours of unpaid work.

He was ordered not to enter Five Oaks Close for nine months and to be given alcohol treatment for six months.

He will also be supervised for 12 months. Taylor was ordered to pay £154.97 compensation for the bike, £850 for the car and £85 costs.