Alex Rees was jailed for 16 months (Picture: Ross Parry)

Alex Rees was girlfriend Tayah Neild’s plus one but rather than making small talk and getting to know other people, he went on a £20,000 rampage.

Prosecutor Joseph Allman said: ‘Prior to the wedding, the defendant was anxious, reluctant to leave his room and said he didn’t want to go to the wedding because he didn’t know anyone.’

He went anyway, but as guests went to sit down for the wedding breakfast, Rees disappeared.

‘Miss Neild went outside and found the defendant there,’ Mr Allman continued. ‘He appeared to be drunk and as if he was under the influence of drugs.’




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Rees caused £20,000 in damage at the Inn at Whitewell (Picture: Ross Parry)

If you go to a wedding where you don’t know anyone, don’t be this guy.

Rees then pushed his girlfriend – the chief bridesmaid – into the road then dragged her into the bush before trashing the Inn at Whitewell, near Clitheroe, Lancashire.

He smashed up five cars, smeared excrement over the walls and smashed lights and plant pots during Jason and Laura Blockley’s wedding.

While being jailed, Rees shouted ‘sorry’ to members of the bridal party who were in the public gallery at Preston Crown Court.

He was given a 16 month prison sentence after Judge Simon Newell heard that he’d done a similar thing before.

Judge Newell told him: ‘What clearly happened that night is that you, having fallen out with your girlfriend and having certain personal differences about the wedding, rather than taking yourself off, you had too much to drink, assaulted her and caused substantial criminal damage to a number of cars and the wedding premises.

‘The consequences involved were not just the damage because damage can be repaired. The hotel can be repaired and cleaned.

‘But there’s absolutely no way that the bride and the father of the bride can rectify that wedding day. That is a very serious personal issue and in those circumstances the gravity of these offences is escalated.’