Two thugs have been jailed after they terrified a young boy while on a wrecking spree at a home.

Jack Carpenter and Jamie Rustage were also sentenced for an attempted robbery at a convenience store.

The pair were joined by Cree Peterson, 29, when they went to the home at Phillipa Court in Milton Regis, Sittingbourne, in the early hours.

Maidstone Crown Court heard they were looking for a man Carpenter, 25, was in dispute with at the time.

He was already on police bail after being arrested for the raid on a convenience store in Rochester.

Prosecutor Kate Chidgey said Carpenter had previously phoned the tenant and threatened to smash her windows.

Then at just after 5am on July 22, after drinking heavily, Carpenter, Rustage, 26, and Peterson carried out the threat.

Miss Chidgey said a neighbour was woken by loud banging, and saw three men at the victim’s front door.

It was claimed a sledge-hammer or bar was used to break the door down, before the downstairs windows were smashed.

Peterson picked up a bike and threw it at one of the windows, and the break-in was filmed by the neighbour on her mobile.

Carpenter and Rustage smashed a £1,000 TV, and an 11-year-old boy who was home alone screamed in terror.

The three were arrested after fleeing in a car and then running off.

Carpenter, of Berridge Road, Sheerness, Rustage, of Lonsdale Road, Rainham, and Peterson, of Beechings Way, Twydall, admitted affray and criminal damage.

Carpenter and Rustage, who has 17 previous convictions for 47 offences, denied attempted robbery, but were convicted.

Rustage, who was jailed for four years in October 2012 for conspiracy to burgle, was sentenced to 20 months.

Carpenter was jailed for 14 months, and Peterson was sentenced to eight months suspended for 18 months and 150 hours’ unpaid work.

He will have to pay £150 compensation and attend a Think First course.

Judge Richard Polden heard that Rustage had been treated for paranoid schizophrenia and Carpenter was diagnosed with autism and ADHD.