A YOUNG mum was left terrified when her boyfriend turned up at her home and found her former partner there.

James Brown shouted at the door before smashing a window and getting into the house in Stockton, a court heard.

The 22-year-old woman was worried that Brown would fight with the other man – the father of her young son.

Brown, 23, was given a community order with supervision after he admitted affray, damage and breaching a restraining order.

Teesside Crown court heard that the order was imposed to keep Brown away from the woman after an earlier case of criminal damage.

But Duncan McReddie, mitigating, said much of the contact between the pair had been instigated by Brown's girlfriend.

Mr McReddie described her text messages as "constant and insistent" and said she also wrote to Brown while he was in prison on remand.

Judge Howard Crowson revoked the order, and made Brown go on a course called Building Better Relationships.

The judge told him: "You are a someone who seems to lose your temper a bit too easily. I see you nod your head in agreement with that.

"It might get you into trouble over the years. I think you have realised that yourself. It is your aggressive behaviour that needs to be targeted."

Brown, of Laurel Road, Stockton, had served the equivalent of a six-month prison sentence on remand.

His girlfriend said in a statement that she did not want him to be locked up, she loved him, and was sorry for the trouble she had caused.

Prosecutor David Crook said she called the police when she feared Brown would clash with the other man - who had not been invited to her home.