‘IT SEEMS THE ORDER HAS NO EFFECT ON YOUR BEHAVIOUR’
Serial pest banned from seeing parents back behind bars
SERIAL offender Christian Hankey is back behind bars – for breaching a restraining order for the 30th time.
The 29-year-old is banned from contacting his parents or going to their Newcastle home.
But the defendant – who has 51 previous convictions – showed up the day after he was released from prison for a previous breach of the order. Stoke-on-trent Crown Court heard he arrived at his parents’ door at around 11.45am on January 28.
His dad called the police and Hankey was arrested.
Syed Ahmed, prosecuting, said: “He attended his parents’ address and was banging on the side door and his father told him he shouldn’t be there and he would call the police. The defendant told him to go ahead and went to the back of the property.
“Officers attended and he was arrested. On this occasion there were no threats.”
Hankey, of no fixed address, had been released from prison on licence on January 27 and was due to attend an appointment with the probation service where he was set to be given details of temporary accommodation. However he failed to attend and the next day was at his mum and dad’s house.
Mr Ahmed told the court the restraining order had previously been made indefinite – but Hankey had persistently breached its terms. Following his arrest he went on to appear before magistrates where he pleaded guilty to breaching the order yet again.
Stuart Muldoon, mitigating, said: “The reason he went on the day in question was because he knew he had missed the appointment and knew he was going to be subject to a recall. He waited for the police to arrive.”
Judge Graeme Smith sentenced Hankey to 16 months in prison. He told the defendant: “You know this is a case where as soon as you are released, time and time again, you have breached it (the order).
It seems the order has no effect on your behaviour.
“You have not engaged with the probation service or done anything to break the cycle of offending. It is in your own interest to engage with probation, to attend appointments they offer – or you will be back in this court.”