LEEDS WOMAN WITH BRAIN INJURY BREACHES RESTRAINING ORDER TO HARASS ELDERLY MOTHER
A woman who was previously banned from seeing her elderly mother after causing her with demands for cash turned up at her flat following a brain injury.Amanda O'Connor harassed the 78-year-old over four months, making phone calls and visiting her in the early hours, begging for money.
She pleaded guilty in November last year to harassment and was ordered not to contact her mother or visit her address for a year.
However, she was found outside her mother’s home in Dalton shortly before 11 pm on June 30, sitting on the doorstep when police arrived after a report of her presence.
Magistrates had previously told that her behavior led her mother to hand over £2,000 of savings set aside for moving, feeling stressed by her constant ringing and visits.
O'Connor, who physically arrived in a taxi and shouted for money, was banned from contacting her mother as part of a restraining order and sentenced to a community order including six months of alcohol treatment.
She admitted to breaching the restraining order and was taken to hospital where she underwent surgery for her brain bleed.
Her solicitor said that on the day she was located at her mother’s address, she had no recollection but accepted she was there.
The court gave her a 12-month conditional discharge with the condition that she stays out of trouble, and she must pay £85 in prosecution costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
