Man attacked ex and threatened to sell her kitten
HE ALSO BREACHED RESTRAINING ORDER BY CALLING HER... FROM POLICE STATION
AMAN assaulted his expartner and threatened to sell her kitten for money.
When Tobias James Mansley was arrested and allowed to make a phone call from a police station, he rang his victim, breaching a court order.
A judge sentenced him last Tuesday to 22 months in a young offenders’ institution for assault and harassment by breaching a restraining order.
The prosecution at Caernarfon Crown Court said Mansley had turned up at the home of his ex-partner, Michaela Jones, on November 6.
He demanded money and became “visibly frustrated”.
He said Ms Jones would have to sell her mobile phone. She said she would help him but she needed her phone.
The court heard she picked up her son and wedged the phone down the side of the sofa as she tried to dial 999. But Mansley kept trying to snatch it.
Then Mansley, of Victoria Road, Holyhead, picked up her kitten and said he would try to sell the pet.
The prosecutor said Ms Jones said: “He was so angry that the colour had drained out of his face.”
He leant his forehead up against her forehead and grabbed her right sleeve with such force that it was ripped off.
Neighbours heard her screaming and police were called but Mansley evaded officers.
He was eventually caught in January.
Yet Caernarfon Crown Court was told that when he was arrested and taken to a police station, he was heard to say “I love you” to someone in the single phone call he was allowed.
It turned out he had used it to ring Ms Jones, even though there had been an earlier restraining order prohibiting contact.
Myles Wilson, defending, said his client had behaved immaturely.
Being in custody had been a a
“shock to the system”.
He has work out of the area at family friend’s plumbing business in the south of England. He wants to put this matter behind him and move on.
However, the judge, His Honour Timothy Petts, told Mansley he had “absolutely no regard” for court orders prohibiting him from contacting Ms Jones.
He jailed the defendant for 10 months each, to run concurrently, for breaching a restraining order twice, and also activated the rest of a former suspended sentence.
So, Mansley was sent to youth detention for a total of 22 months.
His restraining order conditions were strengthened, prohibiting him from contacting his ex-partner through a third party.