A DRUNK man who smashed windows of a house on a road he was banned from entering has been jailed for five months.

But Richard Wright will not serve any longer behind bars as a result of the drunken behaviour in the residential street in Houghton. His jailing comes as he has been recalled to serve the remainder of an earlier sentence for smashing up a different home in the very same street.

The 28-year-old was on early release from prison when he launched the attack on the house close to where his ex used to live.

Tessa Hingston, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court when he was put on a suspended sentence in February 2016 he was also made subject of a restraining order.

After failing to comply with the terms of the order, imposed for smashed up his former partner’s home, he was jailed for 15 months in June last year.

She said part of the restraining order was a ban from going to Turnpike Road in Highworth: where he had smashed up his former partner’s home.

Miss Hingston said there was bad blood between him and a man called Martin Miles, who lived on the road.

Shortly before midnight on Thursday July 26 Mr Miles called the police to say someone had smashed his windows by throwing something through them.

The householder then saw Wright climbing into a house and issuing threats smashing windows and an interior door.

He also made violent threats to a woman and others - saying to one ‘I am going to shank you up, I’ll stab you’.

When officers arrived they found a number of people in the street and Wright was sufficiently violent towards police that he had to be tasered.

Wright, of Windrush, Highworth, admitted criminal damage, threatening behaviour and breaching a restraining order.

The court heard he was also in breach of a four month suspended sentence imposed by magistrates in May for possessing a knife.

In 2013 he was described as a ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ character as he was jailed for 16 months for stabbing his brother in the neck with a broken beer bottle.

Rob Ross, defending, said as a result of his arrest his client had been recalled to prison on the earlier sentence and was not due out until April.

On the night of the incident he said that he had not only drunk too much but also taken class A drugs.

Earlier in the day he said there had been an altercation between him and the victim,

The lawyer said that when Wright is sober he is a very personable man.

Jailing him Recorder Michael Vere-Hodge QC said “Your release date is not put back by means of this offence.”