A 20-year-old admitted smashing his mother's windows because she wouldn't pick him up after a night out drinking.

Kenneth Leverock, from Southampton, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court yesterday to causing more than $2,500 in damage to his mother's home on November 5.

Crown counsel Robert Welling said Leverock went to the home he shared with his mother after a night drinking and became enraged when he found the door was locked.

He first screamed at his mother before shattering several windows in the house and damaging the door in his efforts to enter.

He then walked to his grandmother's home and began breaking her windows until Police arrived.

Asked by Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner why he smashed the windows, Leverock said: "Because she didn't pick me up."

"You're a grown man," Mr. Warner responded. "You can't find your own way home?"

Leverock's mother and father both told the court that he could stay with his father.

Mr. Warner ordered Leverock to be held in remand for three weeks until a Social Inquiry Report can be carried out.

"You can't control him," Mr. Warner told them.

Leverock is expected to return to court on November 30 for sentencing.