A JEALOUS man who told his love rival he was going to kill him before trying to storm into his home with a machete and hammer later streamed his own armed siege on Facebook.

Steven Rogers, 25, also threatened to blow up his own block of flats in Barry during the stand-off with police.

James Evans, prosecuting, said: “The defendant and Daniel Winmill grew up together and were friends but they fell out last Christmas over a young lady.

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“At around 1.20am on January 5, the complainant was at home with his girlfriend when Rogers arrived with a group of men and said, ‘Oi, come here!’ He was armed with a machete and a hammer.

“The defendant started violently striking the front door and was shouting, ‘Come out. I’m going to kill you!’

“Mr Winmill said the door was being struck with such force that it started coming off its hinges.”

There was also a council worker inside the defendant’s home who was boarding up a window after he was burgled the day before.

Mr Evans told Cardiff Crown Court: “The defendant then began using the hammer to smash another window and a shard of glass struck the council worker. He told police he was very shook up.”

The police were called and Rogers fled and was found by armed officers at home.

The prosecutor added: “He live streamed what happened next. The way he was expressing himself was very extreme indeed.

“He threatened to blow up his own block of flats with gas and the building was evacuated.

“There were lengthy negotiations before he was arrested.”

Rogers, of North Walk, pleaded guilty to affray.

Mr Evans said the defendant had previous convictions for robbery, burglary and weapons offences.

Tim Petrides, mitigating, said his client, a former digger driver at Barry Docks, “bitterly regrets” the episode.

His lawyer added: “The defendant accepts this was an appalling incident and takes full responsibility for it.”

Judge Jeremy Jenkins told Rogers: “You armed yourself with a machete and a hammer and went to your former friend’s house with other men where you threatened violence.

“Armed police were later called to your flat where there was, as Mr Petrides rightly said, a siege.

“You caused serious fear and distress.”

Judge Jenkins jailed Rogers for 21 months and made him the subject of a five-year restraining order not to contact his victim.