A MAN was cleared of breaking down a door to protect his girlfriends reputation at Portsmouth Magistrates court today.
Thane, 38, was accused of kicking open a door at Petersfield House, Landport, to confront tenant Jodie Fawkes who had allegedly spread rumours about Mr Thane’s partner on Facebook.
The prosecution claimed Thane had kicked open the door at 11:30pm after drinking in a nearby pub. Police photographs of footprints on the door were cited as evidence of Thane’s actions. Miss Fawkes, the tenant of the property asserted that Mr Thane had caused damage to the door frame and had entered the property without her permission.
The defence contested this stating that Thane had in fact gone to the property on the invitation Robert Lee Derreck , Miss Fawke’s partner in order to collect money that he was owed, and had entered the property after hearing Miss Fawkes ask him to ‘come in.’
Thane stated that he had to ‘give the door a good kick,’ in order to open it because it was swollen shut. The defence said there was no conclusive evidence to show that the door or the door frame had been damaged in any way.
Presiding magistrate Mr Chittendon pronounced Thane not guilty on the charges of causing criminal damage and using violence to secure entry saying: “you entered the property in an accepted way and none of the evidence given holds up the charges against you.”
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