A Warrington man who repeatedly breached a restraining order made after he threatened to throw acid in a woman’s face has been put back behind bars.
Dean Hearne, who told the judge, “I need help with the alcohol, was jailed for 16 months at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday.
As he was led to the cells, 39-year-old Hearne, who represented himself, said to Recorder Martin Reid, “Thank you, see you again.”
Liverpool Crown Court heard that a three-year restraining order was made on him involving not contacting the woman he threatened with acid or entering Grasmere Avenue, Orford, in April last year when he was jailed for a year.
But on September 28 her daughter saw him in Grasmere Avenue at 5.30 am and he “acknowledged her,” said Chris Hopkins, prosecuting.
On the evening of November 4 a woman, who had previously let him sleep in a gazebo in her garden saw him on her CCTV system smashing items in her rear garden.
“She saw him push over a wheelie bin and kicking and shouting at her back door. He shouted, ‘I will cut you up, I will burn your house down. I will kill your dog.’
He put his hand through the cat flap, damaging it and the frightened woman asked her daughter to come round. She walked round to the house but met Hearne who shouted, ‘who the f….are you going to do?’.
“He repeated the threats and punched her to the face knocking her glasses off, causing soreness and tenderness.”
Mr Hopkins said that Hearne, who was obviously intoxicated, later burst through the door of the other woman’s home in Grasmere Avenue, where her three children were present, and threatened, ‘I’m going to kill you, stupid b….’
He was arrested in the early hours of November 5 and urinated in the back of the police van on his way to custody.
Hearne, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to three offences of breaching the restraining order, two of criminal damage and assault by beating.
The court was told that he has 31 previous convictions for 76 offences. The previous offence involving threatening to throw acid in the woman’s face happened after he became enraged when a Cadbury creme egg he gave her contained a £1,000 prize.
He left a bottle of toxic formaldehyde in her shed “as a reminder” and damaged her home. She had befriended him because he was homeless.
Recorder Reid told Hearne, who has already been recalled to prison on licence, “You pose a risk to the public. I cannot see there is a realistic prospect of rehabilitation.”
He accepted that the defendant acknowledged he needed help but said that only an immediate custodial sentence could be imposed.
The judge made a new restraining order to last seven years.
