TWO teenage girls were left "petrified" when a man burst into the house where they were staying and started shouting threats about what he was going to do to the father of one of them.

Blackburn magistrates heard drunken Christopher Lee Read believed the owner of the house was making approaches towards his girlfriend and his intention had been to confront him.

Read, 42, of Queen Street, Clayton-le-Moors, pleaded guilty to affray. He was jailed for 40 weeks and ordered to pay £187 victim surcharge on release.

District Judge Alex Boyd said Read had caused serious fear and distress to the witnesses.

"They were at home in the middle of the night when you have burst in and made very unpleasant threats about the father of one of them," said District Judge Boyd. "They were understandably petrified by what you did."

Antonia Walters, prosecuting, said the householder had gone out and had not locked the door behind him. At about 2.45am the girls were in bed watching Tik Tok when they heard the garden gate being smashed up.

They looked out and saw Read who then opened the door and demanded to know where the father of one of them was.

"He made some disturbing threats about what he was going to do to the other man," said Miss Walters. "The girls were petrified and called 999."

Graeme Parkinson, defending, said his client was on his way home in a taxi when he saw the lights on in the house.

"He went to confront the other man but accepts his behaviour would have been distressing for the young girls," said Mr Parkinson.