A GOD-FEARING churchgoer who attacked his pastor with a vacuum cleaner hose after catching him in bed with his ex-girlfriend, has been jailed for two years.

Colin Watts, of Tressillian Road, Brockley, was sentenced for the attack on pastor Mark Hayles, at the Old Bailey, on Friday, February 22.

The 33-year-old suspected the married clergyman was sleeping with Barbara Chambers, when he visited her home in Shroffold Road, Bromley, last August.

The three of them were all members of the Church of God Prophecy. When Watts arrived he shouted"Are you using a condom?" before breaking in.

When the pastor and Miss Chambers emerged from the bedroom, Watts pulled a towel rail from the wall and hit him about the head.

The conference organiser then smashed a vase over his head, hit him with a vacuum cleaner extension and slashed him across the nose with a piece of glass.

The bloodied pastor, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, ran out into the street and a sympathetic neighbour pulled him in to the safety of her porch.

Defending James Scobie said the relationship between Watts and Miss Chambers had been long an intense.

He said, despite the relationship breaking down, Watts still regarded her as his girlfriend.

Passing sentence, Judge Paul Focke QC, who described Watts as a decent and god-fearing man, said: "You were jealous and obsessed with your preoccupation with this relationship.

"You couldn't recognise it was over. It was heightened by the fact that the man concerned was the pastor of your church who is a married man.

"What you did was present a terrifying experience although he has forgiven you."

Watts, who had no previous convictions, admitted unlawfully wounding on August 2, last year.