A mindless pair repaid the kindness offered to them by a friend by trashing her house and causing damage worth £1,000 to repair.
Jordan Gibson and Courtney Oliver had been allowed to stay at the victim's home after the latter's was damaged by her former boyfriend. However, the duo took advantage of the woman's hospitality by staying for three weeks rather than one just one night, a court was told.
Gibson and Oliver got into an argument with the victim, who had been Oliver's friend and next door neighbour for a number of years, after she asked them to pay back money they'd borrowed from her, prosecutors said. The pair then went on the rampage in the house, in Houghton-le Spring, in Sunderland, and damaged a cooker door, TV, drawers and washing machine.