A LOVESICK Cradley Heath man who slashed two tyres on his ex-girlfriend’s car after she refused to rekindle their relationship has been locked up for 11 months.

Michael Cobb also smashed a bottle on the bonnet of the vehicle and shattered a window in the Meadow Walk home of his former partner, said Paul Spratt, prosecuting.

The couple had a short relationship, he told Wolverhampton Crown Court, and Cobb was unable or unwilling to accept it was over.

Judge James Burbidge QC told the 25-year-old he had been armed with a “significant” offensive weapon when he damaged the tyres after his ex-girlfriend told him she did not want to see him again.

He added Cobb was clearly a young man who “just could not accept rejection” and people living in the area were rightly extremely concerned about the use of knives.

Andrew Mitchinson, defending, said Cobb had been affected by a combination of alcohol and drugs and there was an “inability to accept the relationship had ended”.

Cobb, of no fixed address, admitted criminal damage and possessing an offensive weapon and the judge further made him the subject of a five year restraining order, forbidding him from going anywhere near his former partner or her home.