A MAN has been jailed after he threw a stone at a parked car.

Blackburn Magistrates Court heard Dane Harry Bleasdale, 23, carried out the vandalism after a Sunday drinking session.

He was already on bail for shoplifting and subject to a conditional discharge for stealing a pedal cycle.

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Jailing him for a total of 50 days, the chairman of the magistrates said: “This was an act of wanton vandalism by a man with absolutely no respect for the law.”

Bleasdale, of Nightsafe, Railway Road, Blackburn, admitted the theft of coffee from Lidl and damaging a car belonging to Amit Mann.

Parveen Akhtar, prosecuting, said the owner of the car saw two men acting suspiciously in St Peter Street. Bleasdale was seen to pick up a stone and throw it at the car and the other man punched a window.

Bleasdale admitted he had been drinking.