A BARE-CHESTED man jumped out of his home’s second storey window and went on a cocaine and booze-fuelled rampage in a Chester street, a court heard.

Kelvin Hughes, 40, of Browning Close in Blacon, banged on neighbours’ doors screaming that he had been shot after taking 10 grams of coke and swigging vodka and Fosters lager.

One resident came out to check he was alright, before witnessing Hughes smash the window of his front room, stagger back into some bins and then jump over a three-foot hedge.

“He described him as having super strength and he didn’t appear to feel pain,” said Rob Youds, prosecuting at Chester Magistrates Court on Thursday (September 19).

Shortly afterwards, another neighbour said she had heard an almighty crash from the downstairs living room as her seven-year-old daughter was watching TV before school.

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The damage caused by Hughes at one of the victims' home in Blacon.

In her witness statement, read out by Mr Youds, she said: “I immediately ran down concerned that my daughter may have hurt herself.

“I could see a male climbing through my living room window which had been smashed. I let out a loud scream and was terrified.

“My daughter was sat on the sofa screaming and crying and I was concerned for her safety. The male was shouting repeatedly ‘I’ve been shot!’ I then heard my partner behind me yelling ‘get the f*** out of my house!’”

She said the man left via the front door and was bleeding, had no top on and was wearing black shorts.

“The incident has left myself and my seven-year-old daughter terrified and extremely shaken,” the mother said. “We are both fearful this could happen again.”

Hughes, who was limping and sporting bandages on both hands in the court dock, was arrested and taken to hospital.

But he returned to the scene later that day at around 7.15pm trying to apologise before once again acting strangely, hiding behind cars and shouting that he had been shot.

He was arrested outside a nearby a convenience store and taken to the police custody suite in Blacon.

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Kelvin Hughes leaving court after his hearing this morning.

In his interview he admitted having a 20-year cocaine addiction and normally takes the drug alongside alcohol once a week.

“He said he doesn’t remember much,” Mr Youds said. “It’s a blank.”

At court this morning Hughes pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal damage and it was said that the combined cost of the damage to the windows was £760.

It emerged that he has 11 previous convictions for 25 offences, mainly relating to theft and dishonesty matters.

Howard Jones, defending, said his client works as a driver for a recycling company in Wrexham, lives with his partner and has children from a previous relationship.

He said the cocktail of drink and drugs had sparked a “paranoid psychotic episode”.

“He can’t believe what he has done,” Mr Jones told the court. “He is ashamed and remorseful. It’s been a wake-up call to him that he needs to sort out this particular problem.

“His apologies go out to the families concerned. He has no intention of repeating that type of behaviour.”

The case was adjourned until October 10 while the probation service compiles a pre-sentence report on Hughes.

Magistrates also requested a victim impact statement from one of the families concerned to find out the effect the incident had on their seven-year-old girl.

Hughes was released on bail until the next hearing on the condition that he does not enter Blacon, does not contact any of the victims, and resides at his mother's home in Wrexham.

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Hughes had bandages on his hands when he appeared at Chester Magistrates Court.