A TEENAGER was arrested after he turned up drunk at his mother’s house, breaking a restraining order banning him from being within 100 metres of her.
Ashley Jamie Horby, 18, of Hawthorne Road, Little Sutton, was discovered lying in the garden of a property in Station Road, Ellesmere Port, occupied by his mother.
Prosecuting at Chester and Ellesmere Port Magistrates Court, Rob Youds said Horby arrived at the house on Saturday evening after drinking vodka, when he started shouting and threatening to smash the windows.
Police were called at 8.30pm by his mother’s partner and described her on arrival as ‘crying and distressed’.
Mr Youds said: “She stressed that he hadn’t been violent and had been asking to change out of his wet clothes.
“She told police he was in the garden.”
Horby, who was given a 12-month restraining order on March 15 banning him from approaching his mother’s house, was found lying on the wet grass and was helped up by officers, who described him as ‘unsteady on his feet and smelling of alcohol’.
Chris Hunt, defending, referred to years of difficulties between mother and son.
He said: “This has been an equal and very volatile relationship over the years. It’s fair to say that they each give as good as they get.
“They alternate between recognising that they are related to each other and realising that they are a pain in each other’s necks.”
He said Horby’s mother had contacted her son a number of times since the order was imposed.
Horby was given a 12-month community order, with 40 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay court costs.
