A drunken yob who stabbed his housemate for complaining his music was too loud has been jailed.

Sergio De Almeida, 18, knifed hotel worker Kean Taylor in the ribs after he knocked on his bedroom door at their shared house in Woodstock Road, Oxford, at 4am because the noise and partying was keeping him awake.

The 24-year-old, from South Africa, suffered a single wound to his chest from a steak knife and spent 13 hours in hospital following the November attack, Oxford Crown Court heard yesterday.

De Almeida was sentenced to 12 months after he admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm, but is likely to be free within four weeks having been in custody for 156 days waiting for his case to come to court.

Stuart Alford, prosecuting, said Mr Taylor's wife Kim first complained to De Almeida that the music was too loud at 10pm on November 26, but the teenager then left the house with friends for a night in the town centre.

He returned at 4am and began playing music, waking Mr and Mrs Taylor, who were asleep in their next door basement flat bedroom.

Mr Alford said Mr Taylor asked De Almeida and his girlfriend to turn the noise down but a fight broke out in the corridor and he returned to his room to call the police.

Minutes later there was a knock on Mr Taylor's door and he was confronted by a drunken De Almeida, clutching a steak knife and being held back by his girlfriend.

Mr Alford added: "The defendant - from behind his girlfriend - lunged forward with what turned out to be a knife and with a single strike caught him below the ribs."

Peter Du Feu, defending, said De Almeida, who had moved to Oxford from Portugal to seek a career and learn English, had already had run-ins with Mr Taylor before the stabbing.

He told the court De Almeida, who had no previous convictions, had shown remorse but was too drunk to remember the attack.

Jailing him, Judge Julian Hall told De Almeida: "You were very drunk and it is clear it was quite out of character. I think you've already learned your lesson."