Alexander McPartland, 20, flouted a restraining order which banned him from contacting his long-suffering mother
Teesside Crown Court
A son banned from contacting his own mum risked jail by kicking his way into her home - to brush his teeth.
Alexander McPartland, 20, was freed as a judge said jail would be an “easy option”.
He committed crimes against his long-suffering mother including robbery and assaults.
He turned up at her home, breaching a three-year restraining order, Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday.
He refused to leave and kicked the door open when his mum shut it on the morning of December 10 last year.
He said he wasn’t bothered when she told him she’d called the police, but he eventually ran from the home, said prosecutor Sharon Elves.
McPartland, of Haddon Street, Middlesbrough, admitted harassment breaching a restraining order. He was recalled on licence to a one-year sentence for battery.
His mother said she had sometimes fed him and let him stay as he had nowhere else.
Rachel Dyson, defending, said the mother and son had a very difficult relationship and the mum had sent him “mixed messages” by allowing him back in her home.
She said there was no violence against his mother.
“He goes into the property, he walks upstairs, brushes his teeth and he leaves,” she added.
She said the “surprising” suggestion of a suspended sentence by the Probation Service would be more beneficial.
She argued it would enable “some intervention that will make him understand... there is no relationship between him and his mother”.
He’d already served more than two months on remand and a jail term would see him released without support to tackle his deep-seated issues.
The judge, Recorder James Brown, told McPartland whatever his feelings, the order was clear and had been spelled out.
He said it was a tragic case where both mother and son had struggled with alcohol and drug problems.
“Passing a sentence today which will lead to your relatively immediate release would be an easy option for you,” he said.
“You’ve breached the order on previous occasions and this is a pattern of aggressive behaviour towards your mother which has gone on for some considerable time.”
He said the cycle would continue unless action was taken to address his problems.
McPartland was given a one-year prison sentence suspended for 18 months with supervision and 150 hours’ unpaid work.
The judge added: “The restraining order remains in place until 2016.
“You under no circumstances are to contact your mother and under no circumstances are you to go to her property. Is that crystal clear?
“If you do breach the order, you can expect nothing other than a significant prison sentence.”
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