A MAN breached a restraining order by turning up at his mum's home.

Blackburn magistrates heard Martin Thomas Rickwood was also banned from having any contact with her partner but during the visits threatened to attack his car with an angle grinder.

He said he would also attack his mother's partner.

Rickwood, 40, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to two charges of breaching a restraining order by entering Greenock Street, Burnley, and having contact with Mark Noble twice on the same day. He was jailed for 26 weeks and ordered to pay £154 victim surcharge on release. The restraining order was extended by 12 months until February 2024.

Bilal Saeed, prosecuting, said Rickwood first turned up at his mum's house at 7.30 am and was asked by Mr Noble to leave.

"He said he was coming after Mr Noble later and was going to attack his car with an angle grinder and then attack him," said Mr Saeed.

Rickwood returned to the address at 2.50 pm and this time threatened his mum.

"She says his behaviour is making her ill and she can no longer handle the aggravation," said Mr Saeed.

He said Rickwood was subject to prison licence having been jailed in August for a previous breach of the restraining order.

Mark Williams, defending, said his client had always got on well with his mother and the restraining order did not prevent him having contact with her.

"He is prohibited from going to her address or having any contact with her partner," said Mr Williams.

"He has significant mental health problems, which is self inflicted because of drugs. Until his problems can be dealt with there will continue to be this kind of behaviour."