A THUG who was spared jail after telling a judge he had quit alcohol is finally behind bars after drunkenly harassing his former girlfriend.

Craig Reeves stormed into his ex's house to check her bedroom in a campaign of jealousy while on a suspended sentence for an assault in a kebab shop.

The 25-year-old also threatened to get his former partner sacked by causing trouble at the supermarket where she worked.

And he also made on line threats to friends that if he found she was seeing another man he would 'put him in a coma' adding he was 'up for going to prison'.

Caighli Taylor, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court that Reeves had been in a relationship with the shop girl which ended in August last year.

Later that month he was given a harassment warning by the police, which he refused to sign as he disputed its contents, following her initial complaints.

In November he went to Sainsbury's in Calne, where she worked, and told her 'I'm going to **** up your life and get you sacked from work'.

The following day he followed her from work and waited outside her nan's house when she went inside to see her.

Then at about 1am on Saturday, November 21, she heard banging at her front and back doors and shouting through the letter box.

After about an hour, during which she received a call from a withheld number, he started shouting demanding to know if another man was in there.

When she eventually answered the door he called her 'disgusting', spat at her and knocked her backwards as he went in.

"She told him to get out, he refused, he went upstairs and pulled back the covers on the bed and looked in the bathroom. He said he would see her later at work," said Ms Taylor.

At about 6.30pm Reeves arrived at her till and she refused to serve him, so he threatened to stamp on her head when she left work and used a self service till.

She said that soon afterwards Reeves sent messages to two friend on Facebook saying he was 'raving' and that he believed she was sleeping with someone else.

"He threatened he would put this male in a coma and said he was up for going to prison," Miss Taylor said.

As a result of his behaviour she said the victim felt she was always looking over her shoulder and faced the embarrassment of explaining the situation to colleagues.

Reeves, formerly of The Bungalows, Pinehurst, but now living in Lower Compton, Calne, admitted harassment.

Gemma White, defending, said here client had spent seven days in custody in remand and his first jail time had been a salutary experience for him.

She said he now accepted the relationship was over but had been using alcohol as a way of coping at the time of the offending.

"A lot of what was going on at the time was related to his drinking. His time on remand has given him time to realise alcohol is not the answer," she said.

Jailing him for eight months Judge Peter Blair QC said: "I have come to the conclusion that in the light of the past you have been given a whole pile of chances and opportunities.

"This offence is so serious that only a prison sentence is right to punish you now, having had these opportunities in the past."

He also imposed a restraining order banning him from contacting the woman or going to Sainsbury's in Calne for five years.