A 20-year-old Hinchley Wood man who was drunk and high on cannabis caused £600 of damage to a train by urinating on the seats and graffiting the windows, a court heard this week.

Dean Thomas, of Manor Drive, was part of a gang of youths who boarded a Guildford to London train, operated by South West Trains, on Saturday, December 13 last year with a crate of beer.

Kingston Magistrates’ Court heard on Tuesday, March 10, that a train guard on the service watched the group move to an empty carriage and Thomas was then seen urinating on the seats and etching a graffiti tag on to six of the train windows.

The guard called the British Transport Police and an officer met the train at Surbiton station, where Thomas was arrested.

Charles Shelton, prosecuting, said the damage caused to the train was £628.92.

Defence solicitor Miss Tomlinson, said the group drank 50 bottles of Stella Artois before the incident.

She said Thomas, who admitted criminal damage, was too drunk to remember what he had etched on the windows.

She said Thomas had left his parents’ home after an argument several months before the offence and he had been staying with friends, who were a bad influence.

She said Thomas, who left school at 15 with no qualifications, was depressed about being unemployed after losing his job as a landscape gardener.

She said: "He accepts his behaviour was antisocial and immature and he is ashamed and embarrassed at being in court."

Magistrate Rachel Lipscomb said: "This is the type of offence that frightens people when they use public transport and there is no excuse for such behaviour."

Thomas admitted one charge of criminal damage and was sentenced to be electronically tagged for two months, ordered to pay £250 compensation and £60 costs.