Drink-crazed former boyfriend who terrorised woman jailed and banned indefinitely from contacting her

A drink-crazed former boyfriend who terrorised a woman has been jailed and banned indefinitely from contacting her again.

She ended her relationship with Jamie McCarrick, 26, from Stockton, who she described as paranoid and jealous, after just three months.

Last October he went berserk in her home in Stockton smashing a 42-inch television into pieces, he punched a hole in a wall, smashed a bannister with a kick and wrecked another TV, brandished two knives threatening to slash a sofa, and he bit her bottom lip.

She got an injunction banning him from contacting her, but on November 23 a day after he was released from custody with a suspended prison sentence he turned up at a woman friend’s house in the town where she regularly spent Saturday nights.

He banged at the front door at 4.45am demanding to be let inside but she talked to him through the door for 15 minutes.

He started to kick and shoulder-charge the door, and she grabbed her phone and called the police. He burst through the door as she was talking to the police and he threw her phone onto the floor, and he flung her onto the floor.

Prosecutor Jenny Haigh told Teesside Crown Court that McCarrick fled from the house when police blue lights appeared outside the window, but he reappeared inside the house while they were searching the area for him. Officers returned and he ran into the back garden smashing a neighbour’s fence as he tried to escape.

His ex said in a victim impact statement: “He appears to be ignoring what the courts say and he will continue to harrass me.”

Andrew Turton, defending, said that McCarrick had been in custody since November 23 and he accepted that his behaviour was intolerable.

Mr Turton added: “He left home at the age of 14 but before going into custody he was in full-time employment.

“He understands that alcohol is a big part of his offending behaviour.”

Judge Tony Briggs told McCarrick: “You behaved in an appalling and terrifying manner and you are lucky not to be facing charges more serious than this one.”

McCarrick, of Consett Close, Stockton, was jailed for 14 months and given a restraining order banning him indefinitely from contacting his ex after he pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order, assault by beating, two charges of criminal damage and using violence to enter property.