MAN BREACHES RESTRAINING ORDER MULTIPLE TIMES, FACES COURT
A man who was banned from contacting his partner "does it again time after time", a court heard.Aaron Jones and the woman's relationship had ended after 14 years and he was ordered not to contact her.
But he admitted breaching a restraining order twice.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard Jones, 34, of Kingsland Road, Holyhead, had been convicted in June of harassing his former partner and given the restraining order.
It prohibited him from contacting her, except through a third party over child care or through family courts, until June 2027.
But he breached the order twice in July and August this year.
You can sign up for all the latest court stories here Prosecutor Joseph Lees said in the first breach Jones had sent her a text.
It was sent to accompany a bank transfer and said: "Won't text again.
Sorry." In the second breach he sent a message to his mother - which his mother showed the victim.
The message alluded to using family members as a "weapon" and "scared" her, said Mr Lees.
She reported the matter to North Wales Police.
In a statement read out in court the victim said: "I am struggling to see an end to all this.
"I want it all to stop and go away.
I do not honestly believe I will be left alone by him.
He has been arrested and released and does it again time after time to control me." She said Jones has told her that her "actions are the reason for him wanting to take his own life".
But she fears he will be physically violent towards her.
She hopes her reporting his actions will not be in vain and that she does not "end up dead anyway".
Elen Owen, defending, said Jones had sent money by bank transfer for the first time.
But it was stupid to text a message too.
If he had simply put the reference "Kids' Money," as he had done when sending money previously in a different way, it may not have been a breach, the court heard.
Ms Owen said the defendant told police about it himself and there had been no prohibition about him using social media at the time.
She claimed the situation is "not black and white" and he has not seen his children since April.
The judge His Honour Timothy Petts said Jones had been stupid enough to breach the restraining order by sending a text to say he had made a bank transfer and by indirectly contacting the woman through Facebook, making various allegations against her.
He added: "It's clear from heartfelt comments (that) she is really scared about what you will do in the future.
You have previously served a prison sentence for coercive and controlling behaviour and intentional strangulation." But he said he has a realistic prospect of rehabilitation and faces the "triple jeopardy" of potential jail for any future breach, resentencing of a community order, and a sentencing for any new offence.
He ordered him to wear an electronic tag during a four-month curfew between 7pm and 7am, and to do 20 days of rehabilitation activity.
The restraining order now lasts for ten years.
