A SCAFFOLDER had one too many Jägerbombs after winning promotion with his darts team and started banging on a random person’s door, a court has heard.

Dean Albert John Hobbs was in jubilant spirits after his darts team won promotion last month.

But on his way home at roughly 1.40am he ended up going to the wrong address and found himself banging on a stranger’s door on Penhill Drive, trying to get in.

He told the court it was around the corner from where he used to live, and in his drunken state, he was confused.

But Hobbs was so intoxicated that when police arrived, they could not find out where he lived or anywhere to take him, so they decided they had no choice but to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly.

Swindon Advertiser: Scaffolder Dean Hobbs was fined £80. Photo: Facebook.Scaffolder Dean Hobbs was fined £80. Photo: Facebook.

He was hauled before the courts on Tuesday (May 24), where he pleaded guilty to one count of being drunk and disorderly in a public place.

Setting out the case earlier in the hearing, prosecutor Keith Ballinger said the occupants of the house were woken up in the early hours of April 2 by the 38-year-old’s drunken antics.

“They asked him to leave, he refuses. Officers arrived and find him banging, trying to gain access.

“They describe him as being unsteady on his feet, his eyes were glazed.”

In one comment, Hobbs told officers: “There isn’t anything like a chicken wing.”

But representing himself at Swindon Magistrates’ Court, Hobbs, now of Crudwell Way in Penhill, said he couldn’t excuse what he did.

“I used the live down there about eight years ago. I was drunk,” he told District Judge Joanna Dickens.

“I play darts on a Friday. We had just won the league and won promotion, there was a presentation, there was too many Jägerbombs, that’s what done it.”

But the district judge was unimpressed by his excuse.

“The real problem here is the fact you wasted a lot of police time. By the sounds of it you haven’t been particularly aggressive.

“Police are stretched, you wasted their time.”

She fined him £80.

Hobbs, who appeared in the dock wearing a blue sweatshirt and denim shorts, must also pay court costs of £85, as well as a contribution to victim services of £34.

As he was leaving the dock, Hobbs said: “I apologise.”