A HEREFORD man has been sentenced after breaking his restraining order to contact a woman.

Dominic Brand appeared before magistrates in Hereford for sentencing in April after entering guilty pleas to two counts of harassment by breach of a restraining order at an earlier hearing.

The court heard from prosecutor Mark Hambling that the 32-year-old had been made subject to a restraining order by magistrates in Hereford on October 25.

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But he had without reasonable excuse contacted a woman he is prohibited from contacting by the order in Hereford between October 26 and January 10 and on February 10, magistrates were told.

Brand, of Moreland Avenue in Hereford, was fined £100, received a two-year community order, and was ordered to complete a 29-day Building Better Relationships programme, with magistrates saying they had taken his guilty pleas into account when imposing the sentence.

He was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £100.