A PRISONER on parole vandalised an acquaintance’s home and slammed a van door repeatedly on a police officer, York Crown Court heard.

Police had to taser Michael Bennison, 30, to arrest him, said James Weekes, prosecuting.

He told them: “I am going to kill him” and “He is lucky I didn’t get hold of him because I would be on a murder charge.”

Bennison had drunk alcohol and taken cocaine and was on parole from a four-year sentence for causing actual bodily harm to another man and wounding his then girlfriend.

He has 18 previous convictions for violence and vandalism.

The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, told him: “This lawless behaviour has to be punished.”

He jailed him for two years and eight months for his latest offences. Bennison, of no fixed address, has already been recalled to serve the rest of the four-year sentence. He will also have to pay a £120 statutory surcharge and court costs of £900. He pleaded guilty to burglary involving criminal damage, criminal damage to a car and assaulting a police officer.

His barrister Alex Menary said: “He put what he thought was two and two together and in his state of intoxication became angry.”

Mr Weekes said Bennison and the acquaintance were cellmates in Hull Prison. After they were both released and came to live separately in York, Bennison accused the other man of harassing a woman he knew.

At 11.15pm, the victim heard him banging on the door of the communal accommodation where he lived off Leeman Road and heard him shout “I’m going to get you”. Bennison also urged the victim to come outside, but he didn’t.

Bennison got into the building and broke a television and mirror as well as the door. He also smashed every window and wing mirror on the victim’s car.

Police called to deal with him found him in a nearby street.

As an officer was getting out of the van to arrest him, Bennison slammed the van door on him five or six times, and in the struggle that followed, the officer used his taser on him. The officer suffered minor injuries.