AN OFFENDER with a “flagrant disregard for court orders” has broken a ban forbidding him from going to a Herefordshire farm.
Jerzy Kobialka entered a guilty plea to one count of breaching a restraining order when he appeared before magistrates in Kidderminster earlier this month.
The court heard from prosecutor Angela Hallan that the 55-year-old had harassed a woman at a farm near Ross-on-Wye on May 31.
The offence was in breach of a restraining order which was imposed on April 26 and prohibits him from visiting the farm or contacting the woman.
He had been banned from the farm after a string of offences in which he attacked the woman several times.
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Magistrates said Kobialka, represented at the hearing by defence solicitor Fergus Maxwell, had a “flagrant disregard for court orders” and that the offences were so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified.
He was handed an eight-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months.
Kobialka, of Thunderbolt Way, Tipton, was also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85.
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