A man who ran amok with a meat cleaver and a baseball bat arrived at court demanding to be jailed and carrying a massive stereo system to keep him entertained in his cell.

Paul Sadler, 35, was so weighed down with luggage for his spell behind bars that he was allowed to lug it all into the dock at Gloucester Crown Court ahead of his appearance.

And Sadler, of Arnolds Way, Cirencester, got his custody wish when Judge Martin Picton sentenced him to 16 months imprisonment.

Sadler had admitted two offences of criminal damage and one of affray, all committed in Millenium Way, Cirencester, on June 28 last year against a man whom he suspected had slept with his wife.

Prosecutor Julian Kesner said Sadler, carrying a cleaver and bat, chased Lee Walsh around his home when his partner Zoe Parker answered the door.

Sadler, who has made 35 previous court appearances, managed to strike Mr Walsh on the arm with the bat and shout ‘I’m going to kill you’ before Mr Walsh managed to escape from the house and flee, said Mr Kesner.

He later returned and hit his neighbour's new Chevrolet car with the bat, denting the vehicle, and also kicked the front door and smashed a window on Mr Walsh’s home.

For Sadler, Nicola Berryman said he had endured a long struggle with drug addiction and had also had trouble controlling his temper.

"What arose here was deeply personal and deeply emotive for him, something which had allegedly happened in December 2008 but which did not come to his attention to the spring of 2009," she said.

Jailing Sadler for 16 months Judge Picton told him: "Whatever you believed Mr Walsh may have done it couldn't justify what you did. For the people in the area it was a very frightening thing to witness. "