A MAN crashed into three caravans and wrote off two of them after family violence, York Crown Court heard.

Tyler Steven Campbell, 29, was told to go to bed after an argument between himself, his cousin and her partner turned physical, said Brooke Morrison, prosecuting.

But he didn’t.

The partner, hearing his vehicle’s engine revving, looked outside and saw Campbell drive into a line of three parked caravans, causing £16,500 damage.

Graham O’Sullivan, for Campbell, said he had only hit one of the caravans, shunting it into another, which had shunted into the third.

The judge said: “It just shows how fast he was going. He put his foot down.”

Campbell, who has learning difficulties and has been diagnosed with a personality disorder, pleaded guilty to aggravated taking of a vehicle without consent.

The Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris, told him: “On that evening you received some severe goading" on non-driving matters.

He gave him a two-year community order with 30 days’ rehabilitative activities and banned him from driving for 12 months.

Ms Morrison said Campbell got heavily drunk when he was with his cousin and her partner in a caravan on a caravan storage site on the Great North Road near Selby Fork on July 20 last year.

As well as writing off two of the caravans, he damaged the third and the partner’s vehicle.

Mr O’Sullivan said: “He is in need of help and some degree of protection as well.”

Campbell was currently living at a hostel for the homeless in Hull, but was hoping to move to a different address soon.