Bolton man breached restraining order with Fb messages

Kurtis Wooden, 28, left courtroom with a suspended sentence and a restraining order in August final yr after attacking the girl on Lever Avenue, Nice Lever.

However Bolton Crown Court docket heard how he had merely gone on to ship her a string of messages on social media, which the order had banned him from doing.

Prosecutor Alistair Reid stated: “There had been a sequence of incidents not too long ago with Fb accounts he created and tried so as to add her as a good friend.”

As Wooden appeared on by way of video hyperlink from jail, Mr Reid advised the courtroom how on December 29 this yr he had despatched the ladies 4 messages from an account known as “Kurtis Smith Wooden.”

The case was heard at Bolton Crown Court docket (Picture: Newsquest)

There was additionally a screenshot displaying that he had tried so as to add her as a good friend on a Snapchat account.

Mr Reid accepted that not one of the messages had been “significantly threatening” however reminded the courtroom of Wooden’s violent background.

The 28-year-old, of Chorley New Street, had been sentenced to 12 months in jail, suspended for 2 years in August final yr after confessing inflicting precise bodily hurt and legal injury.

He was additionally ordered to finish 25 days of rehabilitation actions, relationship and alcohol therapy programmes and obey a restraining order banning him from contacting his sufferer.

However after breaching this order by his flurry of messages in December, Wooden was arrested and admitted to police when interviewed that he had breached the restraining order.

Introduced earlier than the courtroom once more Wooden, who has 18 earlier convictions for 35 offences, pleaded responsible to harassment by breach of restraining order.

Mr Reid advised the courtroom how eight of Wooden’s earlier convictions had been for breaching restraining orders, however that this was the primary for this explicit lady.

Hannah Forsyth, defending, accepted Wooden’s “extraordinarily silly plan of action” and stated he accepted that his “solely sensible sentence is custody.”

However she stated that he had earned credit score for his responsible plea and he or she that, by means of her, he wished to specific his regret.

Ms Forsyth advised the courtroom that after he was launched Wooden hoped to pursue a profession as a DJ.

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Choose Nicholas Clarke KC stated he accepted the messages had been “not significantly threatening.”

However he reminded the 28-year-old of the misery he had induced his sufferer, which was “all the results of a marketing campaign” he had launched.

Choose Clarke sentenced Wooden to a complete of 14 months in jail.

He warned him he could be “in peril” if he ever breached his restraining order once more and urged him to work with the probation companies on being realised.

Choose Clarke stated: “After which, hopefully, you will get your self again into DJing and no matter different ambitions you might have.”