A MAN who breached a restraining order to visit his gravely ill grandmother has been jailed.

Kieran Everard, 22, of Church Street in Connah’s Quay appeared before Mold Crown Court where he was sentenced for assault causing actual bodily harm in January, resulting in a suspended sentence and a three-year restraining order.

Prosecuting Simon Parry said the assault against his own mother took place at her home address in Prestatyn and involved ‘kicking, stamping and punching’.

Everard was given a 10-month prison sentence which was suspended for 12-months and a three-year restraining order, prohibiting from contacting his mother but also not to be within 500m of her home address.

The court heard how in August this year, Everard’s mother reported to police he was at her home address, but she was not present at the time.

Mr Parry added that the police attended and he told them he was ‘cooking tea for his grandmother’, he was told he was breaching the restraining order conditions and arrested him.

Defence Counsel Myles Wilson said his grandmother, who lives with his mother, is ‘gravely ill’ and was ‘housebound’.

He said: “The prognosis to her isn’t good. She’s not expected to live for very long.

“That is why he went around and was cooking her a meal.”

Judge Recorder Simon Mills said: “On January 18 you committed a serious offence of assault resulting in actual bodily harm against your own mother at her home.

“You were properly remanded in custody because of the seriousness of that offence and no doubt risk of further offending.

“After spending a while in custody, you changed your not guilty plea to guilty and the judge who sentenced you on May 19 gave you a chance by suspending the inevitable sentence, no doubt taking into account the fact you spent time in custody.

“He also made a restraining order against you, designed to stop you contacting your mother, who you seriously assaulted whilst she was in a very vulnerable state.

“It also forbade you of going 500yards of the address for three years. The judge will have explained that to you very clearly. You would have been sent a letter by your solicitors explaining it to you.”

Everard was told if he was in any doubt, he should have contacted his solicitors.

Recorder Mills added: “Less than three-months later you broke the very clear terms of that order by not just going within 500yards of the address, but by going inside it.

“I accept your mum wasn’t there, but she contacted police to say you were. I accept that you were cooking your grandmother a meal and she is now very ill.

“You knew your mother wasn’t there because you had been speaking to her as well.

“The judge who sentenced you no doubt will have told you he was giving you a chance, he will have told you it was an offence to go inside that house because of the restraining order.

“I accept no real harm was done by your actions, but those actions involved, in my view, the deliberate defiance of a court order made not long after you committed a serious offence.”

Recorder Mills said he would take into account the early guilty plea and that ‘no actual harm’ was caused as well as the ‘current circumstances’ of Covid-19 which would made custody ‘harsher’.

He activated the suspended sentence but reduced it to 8-months rather than 10 and gave Everard a two-month custodial sentence for breaching the restraining order – which would run concurrently.

Recorder Mills said: “This is an act of mercy designed to reflect that you were cooking your grandmother a meal, albeit in defiance of a court order.

“You will serve half of that sentence.

“When orders are imposed on you, you must obey them.”