A MAN has been banned from a Hampshire village for two years after a domestic row resulted in him smashing in a door with a pole and also damaging a window.

John Higgins has been told he cannot go into the village of Bransgore in the New Forest after a serious row with his-then partner Jacqui Flexman saw damage property after he lost his temper.

Southampton Magistrates Court heard the 47-year-old former bricklayer had been drinking at a nearby pub on Monday evening.

When he came back, Higgins of no fixed abode, demanded food, and once it was given to him he spat it out because it was cold.

He then threatened to leave Ms Flexman, who he had been in a relationship with for 18 months and she said he could and she asked him to leave

Once he left the home, she locked the door, which resulted in him smashing it as he tried to get back inside, he also damaged the window of a nearby hairdressers.

Prosecuting, Natalie Angel said: "His partner asked him to leave because he was scaring her, she closed the door and locked the door and he was banging on the front door to let him in she says no and he becomes more violent towards the door.

"She talked to him through the window, he was shouting let me in let me in Jacquie and he calls her names."

The court heard he then used a metal pole to smash the door in, and cracks were also discovered in a window of a nearby hairdressers which he admitted to damaging.

Higgins pleaded guilty to two charges of criminal damage.

In mitigation, Kathryn Chapman said he had been having health difficulties and severe back pain.

She said he had not been able to work as a bricklayer due to this . She also said that he is having mental health difficulties.

Sentencing Higgins, district judge Lorraine Morgan made note that he had not been before the courts for a number of years. She said he must pay £545 damages, £85 costs and a surcharge of £30.

He has also been handed a restraining order not to enter the village of Bransgore for two years.