A man who turned up at his parent's home drunk and damaged a garden gate after not being allowed inside is now banned from going there.

Daniel Reilly, 36, turned up at the property in Chatham during the early hours of October 14 and started kicking the front door.

His dad, who was asleep at the time, woke to hear Reilly shouting to be let in.

However, his dad decided not to engage with him and Reilly smashed the front gate to pieces.

Later that morning, when his father got up to go out on a family trip, he spotted the gate had been damaged and reported it to the police.

The next day, Reilly, of no fixed address, also called the police to the tell them he'd been at his parents' home and had kicked the gate and damaged it. When police arrived to find him, they found him in the back garden.

During interview Reilly admitted he'd broken the gate because he couldn't get in and said he'd called the police because he was guilty.

He was charged with criminal damage and appeared before magistrates in Medway on Wednesday where he pleaded guilty to the offence.

Debbie Jones, prosecuting, told the court Reilly had just last week been jailed for 12 weeks for another offence of sending threatening messages and that his dad had written a short impact statement about his damaged gate and had asked the court to keep his son, who has a drink problem, in custody.

Defending himself and appearing via video link from prison, Reilly said: "I was meant to stay at my mum and dad's house, but I was drunk and they wouldn't let me stay so I kicked it (the gate) out of frustration."

Magistrates also heard this case should have been tied up with Reilly's court case last week and as a result, he received no separate penalty for the criminal damage offence, but was ordered to pay £50 compensation to his father for the repairs to the gate.

He was also made subject to a two-year restraining order preventing him going within 200 metres of his parent's home in Chatham, however, the order allows him to still contact his parents.