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A mum-of-two stormed over to her ex-boyfriend's house armed with "martial arts sticks" and tried to break into his bedroom as he desperately tried to barricade the door.
Buathip Kendray, 49, from Suffolk, turned up to Steven Woods' property after finding out that he had a new girlfriend. She ruthlessly began to wreck his car before she threw planks of wood and smashed her way through the front room window.
The new couple alerted the police as Mr Woods said, "Please, I need someone now", as he heard the sound of breaking glass in the early hours of August 6, last year.
Prosecutor Derek Jones told Liverpool Crown Court: "It was the morning of August 6 when the defendant attended. Mr Woods has heard her shouting outside the address. She then proceeded to rip the wing mirror of his car, throw items up towards the bedroom window where Mr Woods was watching her, and then smashed a ground-floor window to the lounge.
"The defendant then entered the property. Mr Woods and his girlfriend were so concerned they called the police and barricaded themselves in the bedroom. The defendant went upstairs and was trying to break into the bedroom using some martial arts sticks which belonged to Mr Woods."
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A video shows Kendray in a rage, shouting and causing havoc outside Mr Woods' home, damaging his car, knocking over his bin and throwing wood, reports Liverpool Echo. When the police arrived, they found Mr Woods shouting from his bedroom. They entered the house and arrested Kendray later admitted to criminal damage and affray. Police bodycam footage showed broken windows and damage to the bedroom door where Kendray had tried to break in.
Martine Snowden, defending, said: "She's a 49-year-old woman with no previous convictions. She is ordinarily in full-time work and this is the only criminal act in her life. This happened in the complainant's own home, but at the time she believed it was still her home. Of course, his name was on the deeds and he had recently changed the locks, but she had, until recently, been cohabiting there. She, as a result of the falling out between them, had been made homeless. She was obviously very upset, made worse by the presence of another female in the bedroom."
Judge John Benson told Kendray: "You went to that address at Central Avenue clearly in a highly aroused and angry state, and having arrived you engaged in what was clearly a persistent and determined course of violent conduct towards the property, aimed at Mr Woods. All that because your relationship with Mr Woods had ended. You were clearly upset and annoyed that the relationship had ended, but that does not excuse you at all from your disgraceful behaviour."
"I accept that you reflect on what you did on that day and are genuinely remorseful, and acknowledge that what you did was serious and would have been very scary and terrifying for Mr Woods and the woman who was in that property at the time. It's sad to see someone of your age sitting in this crown court because you are 49 and you have never been in trouble before."
He sentenced Kendray, of Cox Close, Suffolk, to an 18-month community order, including a rehabilitation activity requirement and 80 hours of unpaid work. She was also given a restraining order banning her from going near Mr Woods or his new girlfriend in the future.
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