A WOMAN’S cars were smashed in a dispute over a stolen motorbike, Swindon Magistrates' Court heard.

Jason Whitlock, 34, admitted damaging a Saab and Ford Fiesta parked outside the home of Alison Presswell in Gipsy Lane last April.

The woman was at home when she saw between three and four people get out of a car outside her home.

“They said, ‘Get your sons out now. Your sons owe us money,’” Nick Barr, prosecuting, said.

Whitlock, who works in a scrapyard, then used a baseball bat to smash the two cars.

The court heard that Ms Presswell memorised the numberplate of the car in which Whitlock had arrived and he was later arrested.

Magistrates were told that Whitlock had been drinking – between six and seven pints – when the group he was with decided to visit the house in Gipsy Lane.

Whitlock had bought a motorcycle from someone at the property which was later seized by police when it was found to have been stolen.

Swindon magistrates ordered Whitlock, of Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, to complete 100 hours community service., which will be overseen by Hertfordshire probation service.

He was also ordered to pay £100 in compensation, £85 court costs and an £85 victim surcharge payment.