A man who dressed as a Jedi Knight and threatened to kill a dominatrix could return to Brighton in a year.

Stephen Pollard, 28, broke into the Brighton home of Roma Brooks with a blanket draped round his shoulders brandishing a 2ft scaffold pole, which he insisted was a Star Wars-style light saber.

He went to Ms Brook's basement flat in Kemp Town in April last year after becoming obsessed with her.

Pollard told her: "I have come to kill you. I am a man of peace. I am a Jedi. God has told me to revenge the world."

A jury at Lewes Crown Court unanimously found him not guilty of making threats to kill on the grounds of insanity, a special verdict under the 1883 Trial of Lunatics Act, at his trial last week.

Judge Anthony Niblett made Pollard the subject of a two-year supervision order, the maximum he could impose, when he appeared for sentence at Hove Crown Court yesterday.

He said Pollard should continue medical treatment for paranoid schizophrenia at Ashenhill Hospital, a secure unit at Hellingly, near Hailsham, while the order was in place.

He has been a patient there since his arrest and doctors said he had responded well to treatment.

Pollard, who has no previous convictions and was flanked in the dock by two male nurses from Ashenhill and a security officer, agreed to the order.

He will continue treatment in an open unit at Ashenhill to prepare him to return to life in the community.

If he continues to improve he is expected to be found accommodation in Brighton in a year's time so he can continue his rehabilitation.