A man with a history of violence damaged his girlfriend's Worcester home three times in drunken outbursts.

Robert Evans ripped out the phone line, smashed a window, broke a door frame, pulled down blinds and stamped on a mobile phone, said prosecutor Peter Tooke.

He also racially abused Sally Virgo's 14-year-old daughter and hid in his sister's house to evade capture by the police.

Evans, a former Worcester man now living at Wayside, Aston Cross, near Tewkesbury, committed the offences while under a suspended sentence for affray in which he brandished a broken bottle in Malvern at a policeman who had to use his baton.

He pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal damage, making racially aggravated threats and obstructing police.

Recorder James Behrens jailed him for 16 months, including the activation of the 12-month suspended term.

Evans, who had been in a six-month relationship with Miss Virgo, had a record of 42 previous offences including three for affray, four for damage, plus fraud and drug crime.

Mr Tooke said the affrays included threatening a nightclub doorman with a knife, violence at a previous girlfriend's home and causing mayhem in Elgar Avenue, Malvern, when CS spray had to be used by police against him.

Abigail Nixon, defending, said Evans had never caused serious harm to anyone and none of his offences carried a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

She revealed that Miss Virgo was standing by him and had retracted one of her complaints about damage.

The recorder voiced concern that Evans posed a risk to his past and present partners and said he had put women and a schoolgirl in fear.