A MAN has failed in a bid to remove a restraining order banning him from contacting the former boss of the shipyard.

Shaun Gordon Williams was handed the order against the former BAE Systems Submarines managing director in 2015. 

The 46-year-old has put forward an application to remove the order stopping him from contacting then MD Tony Johns and any shipyard worker.

According to court documents Williams said the order should be changed because Mr Johns, who left the company in 2017, was no longer employed by BAE.

Williams, of Aberdeen Street in Barrow, was said to have asked the restraining order to be to split in two, with expiry dates placed on each order.

The restraining order was imposed in March 2015 after Williams had been charged with harassment after allegedly sending a series of letters to Mr Johns, the then managing director of BAE Systems Submarines.

He was also accused of posting insulting and abusive posts about Mr Johns and other BAE directors on The Mail’s website.

The matter was dealt with by way of a civil restraining order, without criminal charges.

The order meant Williams was banned from contacting Mr Johns or any other BAE Systems employee in Barrow while they are at work by any means, banned from entering BAE premises in Barrow, and banned from posting insulting, threatening or abusive posts about Mr Johns or any other BAE Systems employee.

South Cumbria Magistrates' Court did not grant Williams' application to revoke the restraining order.

Court records said the application was opposed and Williams did not turn up to court.

Williams has asked a court to remove the restraining order on at least two occasions.

He previously failed to have it lifted in 2016 and 2017.

Mr Johns took the top job at Barrow’s shipyard in September 2013, when former managing director John Hudson was promoted to the position of managing director, BAE Systems Maritime.