A WOMAN claimed her partner was responsible for putting a concrete block through her bedroom window.

Blackburn magistrates heard Jason Ronnie Morgan lived next door to the victim and said they had been friends for 15 years but denied they had ever been in a relationship.

And he said he caused the damage because he saw the victim's actual boyfriend walking down the street wearing his clothes.

"She dyes my client's washing and it seems her boyfriend had helped himself," said Kevin Bamber, defending.

"He wants me to stress that they weren't in a relationship and he doesn't know where she gets that idea from."

Morgan, 40, of Boxwood Street, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to causing £300 worth of damage to a window.

He was made subject to a restraining order for nine months and ordered to pay £300 compensation.

Tracy Yates, prosecuting, said the victim claimed she had been in a relationship with the defendant for three months but that had ended the day before.

"She said the relationship had been volatile and she was scared of the defendant, especially when he had been drinking," said Mr Yates.

"On the day of the incident she heard him at the rear of her house shouting abuse and then this piece of concrete came through her bedroom window."

Mr Bamber said his client and the victim had been friends for 15 years and Morgan had actually arranged the address next door to his own for her.

"He is not and never has been in a relationship with her," said Mr Bamber.

"He says she has a boyfriend which is who he saw walking down the street wearing his clothes. That is what sparked this incident."