A YOUNG dad banned from seeing his former partner "broke into" her home, where her brother awoke to find him standing over his bed.

On another occasion, Robert Eric Haworth, 23, turned up at the property on Raglan Road, Burnley, and began shouting: "I just want to see my daughter" through the letter box.

He had been placed under a restraining order, prohibiting him from going within 100 metres of the house just days earlier, Burnley magistrates heard.

Haworth, of Crossley Fold, Burnley, had earlier admitted twice breaching a restraining order, on May 30 and June 1. He was given 12 months' probation.

Sarah Statham, prosecuting, said the restraining order was imposed under The Harassment Act on May 18.

Haworth's former girlfriend, Nicola Lister, who had a 15-month-old baby by him, had now left her address, did not want the defendant to know where she was and was going to make a new life elsewhere.

Andrew Church-Taylor, defending, asked the court to remove the part of the restraining order which meant Haworth could not go to Raglan Road and the bench agreed.

He said the order had meant Haworth could not pick up his daughter from the house, but Miss Lister's father had agreed he could now do so.

Mr Church-Taylor added Haworth had health difficulties.

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