At 6.30pm on Monday, John Thornton, a guest at the Double Tree Hotel in Bristol, Connecticut in the US reportedly took a strong interest in the hotels cleaning woman and how she was mopping the floors.

The 30-year-old reportedly grabbed the mop from the worker and cleaned the floor himself.

But a police report into Mr Thornton’s arrest claimed he had been ‘mopping aggressively’ and started cleaning the employee’s shoes several times.

The hotel guest is then said to have stopped mopping but backed the cleaner into a corner, leaving her ‘crying and shaken’.

Police were called to the hotel where Mr Thornton was charged with breach of the peace.  Officers said they found the victim shaken and crying.

He was also charged with second-degree threatening behaviour after allegedly shouting insults and threats as he was taken to the police station.