A TEENAGER smashed a door off its hinges and threatened to knife fellow residents of a hostel because someone had not washed the dishes.

Luke Simpson "kicked off" and yelled: "I'm going to kill them. Im going to stab them. I can do 25 years and still have a life. They won't."

Teesside Crown Court heard how violence erupted at the hostel for homeless and vulnerable young men in Yarm Lane, Stockton, in January.

Footage of the incident was captured on closed circuit television cameras, which was played to Judge Peter Armstrong.

Nicci Horton, mitigating, said Simpson, 19, had a "less than good upbringing" and struggles to deal properly with troubling events.

Miss Horton said he was "quite proud of himself" for not hitting a resident he had pinned to the stairs, because he usually would have.

Simpson, of no fixed abode, admitted affray and criminal damage, and was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

The judge told him: "You clearly have a great deal of need for assistance. You are going to need help in finding the right place to live.

"You were clearly agitated, upset because someone had left dirty pots around, and you, in the vernacular, kicked off and there was a scuffle."

Simpson was seen in the CCTV footage to show another resident a knife in the waistband of his trousers, before threatening to kill two others.