A man has been sentenced after damaging staffs' cars at Warwick Hospital.

The incident took place on 21 February.

Christopher James, 39, appeared at Warwickshire Magistrates' Court on Friday (16 April) charged with three counts of criminal damage.

James, of Sandringham Avenue, Stratford had been taken to Warwick Hospital A&E after being found drunk in a bush in Stratford earlier in the day.

He walked out the hospital at around 11pm and proceeded to damage three cars parked in Millers Road, two of which belonged to staff working at the hospital.

He used his elbow to smash the windows of a Fiat Panda and Citroen DS3 before picking up a traffic cone and throwing it through the windscreen of a Range Rover.

Staff spotted him and called the police.

James pleaded guilty to all the offences and was given a rehabilitation order, a community order and a curfew and ordered to pay £450 in costs and compensation.

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PC Barry Sheehan said: "At a time when hospital staff are working so hard on the frontline of the global pandemic the last thing they want is to leave work to find out their cars have been vandalised in this way. James should feel ashamed of his behaviour."