A Douglas man has been convicted of damaging property after he threw a dressing table during a row with his girlfriend.

Billy Robert Sumner, of Marathon Road, pleaded guilty to the offence and will be sentenced on September 5.

A charge of common assault on a female, which Sumner denied, was withdrawn by the prosecution after a woman retracted her statement.

Prosecutor James Robinson told the court how, on February 26, Sumner was staying at his girlfriend’s house.

She was staying at a friend’s house but when she returned home the following day, her house was in a state of disarray and there appeared to have been a party held.

The woman asked Sumner to leave but he became aggressive, picking up a dressing table and throwing it across the room, damaging it. He also punched a wardrobe before his girlfriend called the police, telling them Sumner was ’kicking off’.

Sumner entered a basis of plea admitting damaging the table but stressing that he had not thrown it towards the woman.