A customer thrown out of a bar took his "revenge" by returning in the early hours and smashing a dozen of its windows – just days after being given a suspended jail sentence.
John Farthing pulled a jacket up over his head in an attempt to hide his identity but his 10-minute-long rampage was captured on CCTV.
Repairing the windows has cost the bar around £3,500.
Swansea Crown Court heard on the night of Wednesday, November 14, Farthing was ejected from the Peppermint bar in the city's Wind Street because of his behaviour.
The 37-year-old went to a number of other pubs and continued drinking then went to an off-licence and bought more alcohol.
Dean Pulling, prosecuting, said Farthing returned to Peppermint at around 5am on the morning of November 15 and armed himself with a metal bin then began damaging the windows of the bar.
Starting with the door to the pub, the defendant systematically moved along the front of the building smashing each of the windows with the bin as he went.
The court heard the attack lasted more than 10 minutes.
The prosecutor said it seemed there was no alarm activation in Peppermint but Farthing's actions were picked up by CCTV operators and were also reported by staff in the nearby Chick-O-Land takeaway.
Farthing ran off when police arrived with officers giving chase.
The court heard the defendant ran to The Strand then back up to Wind Street using one of the lanes connecting the two streets before he was caught back in Wind Street by police and staff from the chicken shop.
The court heard he was not in a fit state to be interviewed following his arrest but after sobering up told officers he had been "blackout drunk" and could remember nothing about the events of the early morning up until the point where he was chased by police.
The cost of repairing the windows was put at £3,500 though the total loss to the business as a result of the incident was said to be more than £5,000. Just hours after the attack staff had to get the pub ready for Beaujolais Nouveau Day, one of the busiest days in the calender.
Farthing, of Castle Quarter, The Strand, Swansea, pleaded guilty to criminal damage.
He had also admitted breaching previously-imposed suspended sentences from the magistrates' court and crown court.
The court heard Farthing has 23 previous convictions for a range of offences with his criminality starting when he was 12.
In September this year he was made the subject of a 12-week suspended prison sentence by justices for making threats to a woman and in November was made the subject of a 40-week crown court suspended sentence for two separate pieces of offending – for cannabis dealing in Orchard Street in the city centre and for the theft of cans of lager from a student in St Helen's Road committed during a gang robbery.
Polly Smith, from the Probation Service, said while the defendant had been attending most of his appointments, staff felt he was merely "paying lip service" to the process and had also been providing positive drug tests.
She added Farthing had had to be given a new drugs worker after making threats to the previous one.
Paul Hobson, for Farthing, said his client had been out of trouble between 2003 and 2017 when he had managed to hold down a job and had been in a steady relationship.
He said the events in Wind Street had happened on his client's first night out after an electronically tagged curfew previously imposed by the courts had come to an end.
Mr Hobson said his client needed to stop his abuse of cannabis, adding: "There is no such thing as recreational use of cannabis as far as he is concerned."
The barrister said while the Probation Service had concluded there was nothing more they could do with the defendant and he had "come to the end of the road" as far as they were concerned he asked the court to consider an alternative to immediate custody.
Judge Paul Thomas QC, who was also the judge who sentenced Farthing for the theft of the lager, said the defendant had "methodically and calculatedly" smashed the windows of the bar in an "act of revenge" after being thrown out of the premises.
The judge said he always told defendants who were given suspended sentences by him that if they were to reoffend during the operational period of the sentence they could expect to go to prison – and he had told Farthing that too.
He said: "As the months go by that warning can slip from a defendant's mind. In this case it was not months going past – it was six days."
Farthing was jailed for a total of 30 weeks.
