A WATERSIDE man burst into the home of a friend in the early hours of the morning with an axe and a knife.
Michael McHugh, 57, had fallen out with the occupant Nicholas Beattie before but the latter thought that was a thing of the past.
“He thought everything between them was OK,” said prosecutor Siobhan Linsley, “But he smashed a window, damaged curtains and threatened that with the knife he would kill him and bury him in the New Forest.”
Mr Beattie, she added, knew McHugh had a history of mental health problems.
Keely Harvey, defending, confirmed McHugh had problems at the time, which were not helped by his dependency on alcohol and drugs. “He wanted to protect a woman from comments made by the complainant to her boyfriend.”
McHugh, of Knightstone Grange, Hythe, pleaded guilty at Southampton Crown Court to aggravated burglary.
He was remanded in custody for sentence next month.
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