A young woman has told Truro magistrates about the moment she found her boyfriend trashing their home.

Amy Lea-Cooper read to the Bench her victim impact statement in a case in which Sebastian Thomas, aged 20, of Tresowes, Helston, admitted causing criminal damage to her property valued at £500.

Jill Wilson, for the CPS, said the couple had been out together that evening and were on a bus home when Ms Lea-Cooper had received a text message from a male friend which started an argument between them.

Thomas started screaming at her and she was so concerned she went to sit with the bus driver. Thomas got off before her and when she arrived home he was smashing up property and she called the police who arrested him.

The couple had been together for about four to five months.

Mitchell told officers: “I did all this”, saying he had just “lost it”. He thought their relationship was over and what was the point of it all? He said most of what he broke was his property. 

“Everything was going pear-shaped,” he said. 

He had no previous convictions but a police caution for battery.

In her statement Ms Lea-Cooper said she had panicked at the cost of replacing what was trashed in her home. 

Deborah Von Kohler, for Thomas, said he deeply regretted what he had done.

He was told to do 40 hours of unpaid work and pay £600 compensation.