Desperate South Yorkshire drug addict who breached order while pestering mum for cash jailed

A desperate drug-addict who breached a non-molestation order while pestering his mother for cash has been jailed.
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Thomas Prior, aged 37, of Hill Top Avenue, Athersley North, Barnsley, had been subject to a non-molestation order to keep away from his mother but he breached the order by attending her home in Barnsley, according to Sheffield Crown Court.

Brian Outhwaite, prosecuting, told the December 22 hearing: “On November 27, this year, police received a report from someone saying the defendant was regularly in breach of the order against him and was attending his mother’s address and asking his mother for money.”

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The defendant’s mother stated Prior had been staying with her because he had been sleeping rough but while he was there he constantly pestered her for money.

Sheffield Crown Court, pictured, heard how a drug-addict who breached a non-molestation order has been jailed after he attended his mother's home while repeatedly pestering her for cash.Sheffield Crown Court, pictured, heard how a drug-addict who breached a non-molestation order has been jailed after he attended his mother's home while repeatedly pestering her for cash.
Sheffield Crown Court, pictured, heard how a drug-addict who breached a non-molestation order has been jailed after he attended his mother's home while repeatedly pestering her for cash.

Mr Outhwaite added the constant requests for money had an effect on his mother’s mental health and her daughter described her mother’s suffering as “extreme mental torture”.

Prior, who has previous convictions, pleaded guilty to breaching the non-molestation order and admitted breaching a suspended prison sentence which had been imposed after he had assaulted a police officer.

Richard Canning, defending, said Prior was homeless when he went to his mother’s home and he asked for money because he has a drug problem and he feels bad about that and wants to get clear of drugs and to start a new life.

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Recorder Andrew Haslam sentenced Prior to ten months of custody and imposed an indefinite restraining order to protect his mother.

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