A man who reacted angrily when he was confronted by a neighbour about his loud music landed himself back in court when the argument got ‘out-of-hand’.

Jake Corrie pushed the man a few times before knocking a window out of a door when he tried to continue the row with his neighbour.

Teesside Crown Court heard how the 36-year-old was serving a suspended sentence at the time of his latest offences.

Nigel Soppitt, prosecuting, said Corrie was given the 18-month sentence suspended for 18 months for breaching the terms of his sexual harm prevention order on June 29 last year.

He said: “There was loud music coming from the defendant’s flat and the man knocked on the door to ask him to turn it down.

“He started swearing and pushed the man to the back and continued shouting and swearing at him.

“The man started to walk away and the defendant followed him to the door and pushed it so hard that the glass fell out.”

Corrie, of Walton Street, Stockton, was found guilty of common assault following a trial at magistrates’ court but pleaded guilty to the charge of causing criminal damage before it got underway.

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Nicci Horton, mitigating, said her client had some mental health issues and had been working well to address his problems.

She added: “He thought he had answered the door quickly but didn’t realise that the man had been knocking for some time.”

Judge Howard Crowson extended Corie’s suspended sentence for a further two months and ordered him to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work during a 12-month community order.

“I would expect that he was a little bit worried on the night,” he said. “And because of the way it developed, it just got a little out-of-hand.”