Man jailed after twice ignoring ban on visiting Sunderland woman's home in just 24 hours

Magistrates imprisoned Nicholas Stoker for 16 weeks after deciding the incidents were “so serious because the offence was aggravated by the defendant’s record of previous offending”.

Stoker was forbidden from visiting a woman’s home as part of a restraining order imposed by South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court in 2018.

But he has now admitted to the same court that he twice breached the order by visiting her Sunderland address on both September 2 and September 3 this year.

He also received six weeks’ imprisonment, to be served concurrently as part of the larger sentence, after pleading guilty to causing £240 of criminal damage to two tyres belonging to the woman on September 3.

Stoker, 30, of Dent Close, Haswell, east Durham, must additionally pay £150 compensation and a £128 victim surcharge.

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