A man broke into his friend's house armed with a baseball bat and smashed it up following a drunken night out. Gary Randell, 44, later told police he couldn’t remember doing it.
The men had been friends for over 30 years and there had been no bad blood between them, Minshull Street Crown Court heard. However, Randell, of Oldham, turned up at the man’s house in May and went from room to room ‘smashing the place up’.
He has since pleaded guilty to an offence of burglary with intent to cause criminal damage, and was today (May 31) handed a suspended sentence. READ MORE: “I hope he dies”: Vile racist, 35, jailed after punching innocent man - leaving him with life-changing brain injuries...
then went on sickening rant in the back of police van Prosecutor Aubrey Sampson said that at approximately 12.15am on May 2 last year, the man was sitting on the sofa when he heard the sound of glass being smashed followed by banging on the front door.
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