A 20-YEAR-OLD man's brush with some anti-vandal paint ended with a brush with the law.
Blackburn magistrates heard that Jonathon Jackson was furious when he staggered against a painted wall as he returned home in a drunken state.
And he vented his anger by putting his fist through a window of the house where the paint had been applied.
Jackson of Old Gates Drive, Feniscowles, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and was fined £85 with £50 compensation and £65 costs.
A charge of attempted burglary was withdrawn after prosecutor David Hartley said it was accepted there had never been any intention to break in.
Michael Blacklidge, defending, said the incident had occurred in April 2002 and Jackson had thought no more of it until he was arrested and charged in June of this year.
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