Those attending Magistrates' Court yesterday burst into laughter as a man, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with "Full Hot and Fullish'' admitted to being just that.

The morning plea court session was disrupted as David Anthony Sousa stood and pleaded guilty to four charges related to three incidents in December and on Monday of this week.

Senior Magistrate Will Francis sentenced Sousa, 46, of Huntley Lane, Sandys Parish, to prison for three months.

Mr. Francis told Sousa, who has a criminal record spanning four decades: "It seems you were released in October and you have been making quite a nuisance up in Somerset.

"I hope you use these three months in Westgate to get some counselling that you talk about, and not just coming out and talking about it.'' Sousa was imprisoned for one month each for stealing a litre of Smirnoff vodka from the MarketPlace on Church Street on December 16, and also being drunk and incapable when Police found him on Monday night.

And he was imprisoned for two months for being in a similar condition on Christmas Eve and to three months for breaking three louvred window panes on Michael Martin's front door on December 23. Mr. Martin lives in the same building.

All of the sentences are to be served concurrently.

Mr. Francis heard Sousa was arrested after a MarketPlace manager watched him walk out of the store without paying $23.23 for the Smirnoff vodka.

Crown counsel Leighton Rochester said Sousa later admitted to Police he was an alcoholic and that he had stolen the vodka.

In the Christmas Eve incident, Sousa stumbled toward a Police car as officers arrived to investigate a disturbance on Huntley Lane.

Earlier that evening Mr. Martin had called Police complaining about Sousa shouting verbal abuse and breaking window panes worth $8.97.

Sousa, in a slurred and almost incoherent voice, told the Police: "Take me away!'' On Monday, Police went to the neighbourhood on a report of a man causing a disruption to find Sousa shirtless, wearing urine soaked shorts, staggering, and talking to himself.

He admitted to drinking vodka again, adding: "You guys must think I'm a punk.

I ain't no punk!'' Yesterday Sousa told Mr. Francis he lived in his brother's building, had been banned from the MarketPlace, had paid for the window pane, and added: "What about the good things I've done?''