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A victim of 'country music rage' has spoken of the terror suffered by him and his fiancee, who was six months pregnant with twins, when a neighbour smashed windows in his house because he was playing Nathan Carter music repeatedly.

Also, on Wednesday night, Jason Kane, 26, of The Elms in Coleraine's Ballysally estate, gave a thumbs up to the star's offer of free tickets to one of his concerts .

Jason said he can see how many people felt the background to the case was funny but he said at the time it was anything but that.

His neighbour, Stephen Leighton, 53, who lives in a flat which is downstairs from him, but not directly below his home - was given a suspended prison term on Monday when he admitted being driven into a rage by listening to the Carter tunes belting out.

He thought it was "some sort of psychological torture".

Nathan Carter heard about the story and immediately offered tickets to the victim, a gesture which Jason is keen to take up.

Jason said: "Thank you Nathan Carter".

He added: "I was playing my stereo in my bedroom including Nathan's hit Wagon Wheel and other tunes. He is class, I am his biggest fan.

"Stephen Leighton came to my door and said, 'If I hear Wagon Wheel one more time I will smash that stereo'. He broke the windows that night but it is fireproof glass, a fist would not have smashed it so he must have smashed it with something.

"He was drunk and he still lives downstairs although he is not directly below my flat. I don't speak to him now over what happened.

"I had got on fine with him and I have been in here almost a year now... until I played Nathan Carter one night and - boom.

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"I think I was playing it for an hour straight. It is an album and it was not just Wagon Wheel but that is the tune that stuck in his head.

"It was serious at the time because my fiancee Bronagh was here at the time and she was pregnant with our two twin girls Madison and Olivia who are now four weeks old and thankfully she was ok and there were no complications.

"He was kicking and banging at my door shouting, 'Open that f--king door'. The next day he got bailed and he came back to my house again.

"He was bailed to another address but came back a few months later.

"It hasn't put me off playing Nathan Carter. I am his biggest fan. I still play it. My aunt told me today Nathan was talking about me and I said, 'Happy days'.

"I have been following him for a few years... and I also like Derek Ryan."

Jason added: "I don't know why I am famous but I can see the funny side now."

Bronagh Hyndman, 21, said: "I was scared when it happened but the pregnancy went ok, thankfully."

Jason says he would like three tickets for him and his partner and sister Emma Kane, 23, and says they are all fans of the star.

Carter had spoken out after Stephen John Leighton, 53, appeared at Coleraine Magistrates Court on Monday.

The court heard Leighton snapped one Sunday night in January when the neighbour in a flat nearby played Wagon Wheel over and over.

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The defendant stormed up a communal stairwell shouting: "If I hear Wagon Wheel one more time I'm going to break that stereo" before banging on his neighbour's door and breaking two windows

Carter has now stepped forward and offered the super fan tickets to one of his shows.

Speaking on the Anton Savage Show on Today FM radio on Wednesday, the country superstar defended his music and said: "It's obviously a pretty serious story but I couldn't help but laugh that someone had been outraged by this song so much that they'd take the law into their own hands.

"But the poor man had his property broken and obviously he's a big fan so I said I must hunt him out and give him a few tickets so we've sorted him out and he's going to come along to the show.

"To be fair, there are probably a lot of people who don't like that song but I know there are a lot of people who do, I'm very lucky about that, but I'd say if you play any song on repeat 24 hours a day it would be annoying."

Stephen Leighton's barrister Francis Rafferty had said that his client had been subjected to repeated playing of the song "on the night in question and for some time beforehand", and considered it "some sort of psychological torture."

Mr Rafferty claimed that after Leighton had threatened to break his neighbour's stereo, the song was "played more loudly and more repetitively".

Leighton, who had a criminal record, received a suspended prison sentence of four months and was ordered to pay £200 to repair damage caused to his neighbour's windows.