An Ipswich man who broke into his former partner’s home to “teach her a lesson” has been jailed for 22 months.

Evaldas Maciuylaits was banned from going to the rented property in the town’s Bramford Road after police were called to a domestic incident between them two days earlier, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

On July 12 last year his former partner’s daughter returned home from school and noticed a strong smell of alcohol, said Charles Judge, prosecuting.

The woman found Maciuylaitis on her mother’s bed, and when she asked him to leave he told her he was there to teach her mother “a life lesson” for what she’d done to him.

Maciuylaitis, 39, of no fixed address, admitted burglary and a bail offence.

Sentencing him, Recorder Paul Garlick said he had lay in wait for his former partner to teach her a lesson.

Jude Durr, for Maciuylaitis, said his client had no previous convictions and had spent five months in custody.

He said his client accepted the relationship with his former partner was over.