Police called to lost drunk man trying to wake up wife at their ‘home’ - but at wrong house

A drunk man screamed, banged windows and kicked a fence in a bid to wake up his wife at their home - only to realise he had got the wrong house, a court heard.

Spencer Amos had been out drinking with a friend on July 4 when, at around 3.30am, he decided to head back to his home in Wilshire Avenue in Hanham. But the 50-year-old must have taken a wrong turn as he ended up at a random property on Russell Avenue in Kingswood almost a mile away.

He then began shouting, ‘banging on the door and windows’ and ‘kicking a fence as well as an electric box outside the property’, as he thought ‘the missus’ had locked him out.

Charged with criminal damage and asked to enter a plea when he appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court today (July 19), Amos replied from the dock: “Guilty. Well, sort of. Because I thought it was my house.”

May Li, prosecuting, told the court that the woman who lived inside the property was woken up to Amos, a man she did not know, screaming and kicking things outside and was so ‘frightened’ that she called the police.

Officers found Amos in the garden of the property where he was arrested, before claiming in interview that while he didn’t have a problem with alcohol he couldn’t remember the incident due to being intoxicated.

His defence solicitor told magistrates that Amos had lots of previous convictions but his offending had ‘slowed down’ in the last few years, particularly after the birth of his son.

Presiding Justice Susan Helfer told him: “It must have been very frightening for the woman to have been woken up in the middle of the night to you screaming and banging around.

“No more behaviour like this, please, whether you’ve been drinking or not.”

Amos received a 12-month conditional discharge for the offence.

He was also ordered to pay £50 in compensation to the Bromford Housing Association, which owns the property, along with £85 in court costs and a £26 victim surcharge.