A shocked householder returned home to find two drunken men inside her home - which had been extensively damaged and even had blood and excrement on the floor.
The woman went out on the night of August 19 last year to stay at her friend's home and when she returned the following afternoon she was shocked to hear men shouting inside her home in Sunderland. She recognised Bradley Fitzsimon, having had a previous association with him, and there was another uninvited man inside.
Neil Pallister, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court: "She walked through the living room, past the kitchen and noticed the house was in a complete mess, which it had not been when she left it. There was blood on the floor, excrement on the floor and there were spots of blood on the laminate in the living room.
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"The defendant and the other man appeared to be arguing, they were shouting at each other and offering each other to fight. The other man left and the defendant was extremely drunk and slurring his words.
"In the living room, she saw several stab marks all over her couch and there was a bloody knife bent on the kitchen counter. There was also a Stanley knife under the settee which didn't belong to her or her mother.
"She went upstairs to the bedrooms. In her brother's room the blinds were missing and it appeared they had been pulled down and were strewn around the room. She thinks that's how they got access to the property, through that window.
"In her bedroom, clothes were all over the room and there were holes in walls which were not there when she had been there the previous night and a mirror was completely smashed.
"She went back downstairs and by this time she was upset and screaming for him to leave."
The woman then noticed a police van parked nearby and reported what had happened. In a victim impact statement, she said: "This has left me terrified. Whenever I hear the door I become scared in case they have come back."
Fitzsimon, 22, of Vicarage Close, Sunderland, who was identified from a DNA match to the blood at the scene, pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to do damage. He was sentenced to 12 months suspended for 18 months with rehabilitation and must pay £750 compensation..
Recorder Tony Hawks said: "You decided to go to this house where you knew the daughter through a short previous liaison and broke into the house to sleep it off. That in itself was a most bizarre thing to do and can only be explained by the fact you were, to use a colloquialiam, off your face on drink and drugs.
"You caused a great deal of damage in that house and they found you intoxicated and half-naked. They must have been terrified, let alone distressed at the state you had rendered their house to."
Jamie Adams, defending, said Fitzsimon had taken drugs and alcohol and went to the woman's house to sleep it off. He added: "The rest of his behaviour is only explicable by the condition he was in, which was out of his mind.
"It's been an immense learning experience for him. His parents are decent folk."
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