Three men are behind bars after a home was trashed in a row over a teenage girl having her eyebrow shaved at a house party.

The youngster had fallen asleep at the bash in June when she was targeted in what a judge described as “a lunatic thing to do”.

A phone call was made to car mechanic Ian McGill, who collected his son Charlie, 18, and pal Conor Harper, 21, before heading to the house.

All three burst inside and “smashed it to smithereens” after a brawl erupted with other partygoers.

Judge James O’Mahony said the homeowner, who was away when the house was trashed, had nothing to do with the earlier incident.

All three men had denied affray and causing criminal damage but were convicted at a trial at Canterbury Crown Court.

The judge told Ian McGill, 49, of Hereson Road, Ramsgate, that he had used a knife to threaten a teenager during the violent incident.

His son, of Dane Court Road, Margate, and Harper, of Southwood Gardens, Ramsgate, had also been involved in the fracas.

The prosecution had told how a group of youngsters had gone to a beach party in Broadstairs before 20 of them headed to the house to continue the evening.

It was there the girl’s eyebrow was shaved by another teenager as she slept and she became upset when she discovered what had happened.

The McGills were called by another person and they decided to go to the house with Harper at 3am.

An argument broke out and Ian began smashing items, causing “a lot of damage”, including a foot being put through a television, and punches were also thrown during the affray.

He was jailed for three years and the two others each received 18-month sentences in a young offender’s institute.

The judge said the three had reacted in fury and decided to teach the partygoers a lesson and smashed the property “to smithereens”.

The judge told Ian: “You had a knife with you at that party. You should have been someone in authority. What then happened was appalling, frightening and destructive.”