AN offender had to be pulled from the courtroom shouting at magistrates who jailed him for repeatedly flouting the rules of his restraining order.

Scott Milburn had pleaded guilty to the breach, and the court heard it was the second time it had happened, during a hearing at Furness Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.

The 31-year-old, of Albert Street, Barrow, protested that he had only been trying to make family arrangements when he repeatedly phoned and emailed his ex-partner, Kelly Milburn.

Mr Peter Kelly, prosecuting, told the court the phone calls and messages were sent between April 30 and May 3, with an “excessive amount” of emails having been received by the victim.

He said Ms Milburn had blocked the defendant on messaging service, Whatsapp, and she had blocked his telephone number, but Milburn had used other phones with the number withheld to call her.

In a statement read to the court, the victim said: “I don’t answer my phone in case it’s him. I worry about returning back from my work because I have to drive past his flat in case he’s sat there.”

Mr Kelly added: “She says she’s worried about seeing him when she’s out. She doesn’t go drinking anymore in case she bumps into him. She says she’s conscious of security features at her work that are a comfort to her.”

This was the second time Milburn had been before the courts for a breach since being convicted of battery in December, the magistrates heard. They also heard that he had only completed one of 60 hours unpaid work he had been given for the original conviction and for the first breach.

Mr Trystan Roberts, defending, told the court Milburn had been trying to make family arrangements and that his grandparents, who had previously acted as a go-between for the former couple, are now too ill to take that burden. The defendant could not afford to pay a solicitor to act as a third party, Mr Roberts added.

The solicitor said there was no risk of re-offending as arrangements had now been made, and the defendant was looking forward to starting a new job.

He said: “At no stage has he gone around to the house, at no point has he gone to her work. There is no suggestion whatsoever that he has been using these attempts at contact to harass the complainant.”

The magistrates were, however, unmoved. They sentenced Milburn to 12 weeks in prison and ordered him to pay a victim surcharge of £115. He was also given an additional 28 days to serve for non-payment of a £1,838 fine from April 2015.

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