DRUNKEN Andrew Moseley smashed up his mum's wardrobe and battered a Land Rover with a wooden stake after a row with his new lover.

But the jobless 21-year-old - who turned to drink and drugs after his previous girlfriend ditched him on Millennium night - was so drunk he could not remember the attacks.

Jonathan Hill, prosecuting at Worcester Magistrates Court, told the bench Moseley staggered upstairs to his bedroom in his mother's house "boisterous and overwrought" late on Thursday, July 20.

"A friend of his arrived and tried to calm him down, but there was shouting and banging coming from the defendant's room," said Mr Hill.

"When the defendant left his mother's, she went upstairs and found there was a wardrobe with its door ripped off."

Moseley walked up the street, hurling abuse at onlookers.

His mother called the police.

"Shortly after that, he was seen to take a piece of wood and bang it down on the bonnet and roof of a Land Rover Discovery, scratching the paintwork," Mr Hill said yesterday.

"The owner estimates the damage to be around £500."

Moseley - who also lashed out at police officers trying to arrest him - admitted two charges of criminal damage, and one each of using threatening words or behaviour and being drunk and disorderly.

Ann Brain, defending, said Moseley, of Orchard Court, Malvern, had "gone downhill" after his girlfriend broke off their relationship at New Year.

Moseley - who served a stretch in a young offenders' institution in 1998 - was working as a timber decker in Malvern but lost his job when his drink and drugs problem escalated.

"At first, he turned to alcohol for solace, but then was drinking more and more," said Mrs Brain.

"He began to use cannabis as a way of getting to sleep.

"On the evening of these incidents, he had met up with his ex-girlfriend. There was an argument. He was extremely drunk.

"He them met up with a girl with whom he was having a casual relationship and because he had met up with his ex-girlfriend, another row ensued.

"He lost his temper. He can't remember a lot about the incident due to his intoxication."

Moseley's case was adjourned until Thursday, October 12 for pre-sentence reports to be prepared.