A WORCESTER man who smashed a window with his foot and spat blood in a Worcester hospital waiting room has been locked up by magistrates.

Christopher Small, aged 20, of Chedworth Drive, Warndon kicked in the window of a couple’s home when they complained to him that he was outside their window with his bike.

Small had been cycling back home via Cranham Drive in Warndon when his bicycle chain came off and he started fixing it outside the house.

When one of the residents told him to go away as they feared he would damage their window, Small became abusive, swearing at them and then “karate-kicked” the window, shattering the glass.

Small was arrested and then picked out in an identity parade.

Sallie Hewett, prosecuting, said the incident in August had left one of the victims very scared.

The 20-year-old, who was given an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo), was seen in November standing outside McDonald’s at the Cross, Worcester in the early hours with someone that he had been told not to associate with under the terms of the order.

He told police he had taken 15 ecstasy tablets and so was taken to A&E at Worcestershire Royal Hospital to be checked out. When he was there, he refused to sit down, was loud and abusive in the waiting area, lurched at the police officer and had to be restrained when in with the nurse, which caused him to cut his lip.

Back in the waiting area he spat saliva and blood on to the floor.

Mrs Hewett said: “He was causing people in that waiting area harassment, alarm and distress.”

Small admitted the charge of criminal damage and breaching his Asbo, which prevented him from causing harassment, alarm and distress, and also using foul and abusive language in a public place.

In mitigation, Sam Lamsdale said Small had hurt his knee when the bicycle chain came off his bike and had only been outside the house for a few minutes when he was told to go away, and that was why he became angry.

She said that when he had seen the boy he was not allowed to associate with it was by chance, not design.

Chairman of the magistrates, Linda Griffin said Small’s behaviour in the hospital had been “unacceptable”. He was sentenced to 18 weeks’ custody.