A man wrote off his wife’s car by damaging it three days in a row from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day, a court heard.

Michael Robert McCall, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail when he appeared before Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes this week.

The court heard McCall, aged 35, had already served the equivalent of the eight-week sentence while on remand. He had admitted three counts of damaging property.

Deputy High Bailiff Jayne Hughes said: ’You followed the vehicle around to cause damage to it.

’It must have been distressing to your partner.’

Advocate Roger Kane explained McCall had been working seven days a week as a roofer.

’He hit a wall and had essentially a breakdown,’ Mr Kane said. ’

Mr Kane said there had been ’concerns over his mental health’ at the time, and that his wife was in court to support him and had been visiting him in prison.

’She sought to retract her statement,’ he said. He was suffering from stress at the time. There had been criminal proceedings hanging over him for which he was sentenced.

’While in prison he has been able to access mental health services. There were other factors, he suffered family bereavement, it was a stressful time.

Mr Kane described it as a ’rather bizarre series of offences’, adding that his client had voluntarily handed himself into the police.

Meanwhile, a 200-hour community service order which his client had been sentenced to in December for driving whilst disqualified was revoked.

It was replaced with a combination order of 120 hours’ community service and 12 months’ probation.

He was also ordered to pay £125 prosecution costs.