A MAN has been jailed after he blocked the path of a car driven by his ex-partner and smashed the windscreen with a bat.
Daniel Jackson was said to have lost his temper when he saw Heather Mansfield driving with her new partner in the passenger seat.
Flintshire Magistrates Court was told there were children in the car, but Jackson said that he had not realised that at the time.
Jackson, of Brookdale Avenue in Connah’s Quay, admitted a public order offence following an incident in Englefield Avenue in Connah’s Quay on November 23 and he was jailed for 12 weeks.
An indefinite restraining order was made under which he is not to approach Miss Mansfield or enter Lyndon Avenue in Connah’s Quay.
Magistrates said Jackson had approached a vulnerable victim with a weapon and damaged the vehicle when there were people inside the car including children.
Prosecutor Rhian Jackson said Miss Mansfield and her partner Stephen Woods were travelling in a car and were in a queue of traffic at the junction of Englefield Road and Mold Road when the defendant, 28, drove up in a van and blocked their path.
He got out holding a wooden bat about three feet long, approached the passenger side of the vehicle where Mr Woods was sitting and swung the bat at the windscreen. It smashed immediately.
Concerned for their safety, she drove over a grass verge to get away, returned home and alerted the police.
She was worried about his unpredictable behaviour and told police how there had been a previous incident when he had put his head through a side window of the vehicle and told her he did not want to see her partner in the car with her again.
Their relationship had ended in 2014 and she did not know why he was behaving this way.
It was causing a lot of stress and anxiety, she explained.
Arrested and interviewed, the defendant made no comment.
David Finney, defending, said that his client accepted what he had done, was embarrassed by his actions and wished to apologise.
He had not realised that there were children in the vehicle.
It was his case that when the relationship ended he left the vehicle with her and had not sought its return.
It was effectively his vehicle and he accepted that when he saw the new partner in it he lost his temper.
Mr Finney said he had explained to his client that he could take action to recover the vehicle, but if he left it with her he could not dictate to her who should travel in it.
Daniel Jackson was said to have lost his temper when he saw Heather Mansfield driving with her new partner in the passenger seat.
Flintshire Magistrates Court was told there were children in the car, but Jackson said that he had not realised that at the time.
Jackson, of Brookdale Avenue in Connah’s Quay, admitted a public order offence following an incident in Englefield Avenue in Connah’s Quay on November 23 and he was jailed for 12 weeks.
An indefinite restraining order was made under which he is not to approach Miss Mansfield or enter Lyndon Avenue in Connah’s Quay.
Magistrates said Jackson had approached a vulnerable victim with a weapon and damaged the vehicle when there were people inside the car including children.
Prosecutor Rhian Jackson said Miss Mansfield and her partner Stephen Woods were travelling in a car and were in a queue of traffic at the junction of Englefield Road and Mold Road when the defendant, 28, drove up in a van and blocked their path.
He got out holding a wooden bat about three feet long, approached the passenger side of the vehicle where Mr Woods was sitting and swung the bat at the windscreen. It smashed immediately.
Concerned for their safety, she drove over a grass verge to get away, returned home and alerted the police.
She was worried about his unpredictable behaviour and told police how there had been a previous incident when he had put his head through a side window of the vehicle and told her he did not want to see her partner in the car with her again.
Their relationship had ended in 2014 and she did not know why he was behaving this way.
It was causing a lot of stress and anxiety, she explained.
Arrested and interviewed, the defendant made no comment.
David Finney, defending, said that his client accepted what he had done, was embarrassed by his actions and wished to apologise.
He had not realised that there were children in the vehicle.
It was his case that when the relationship ended he left the vehicle with her and had not sought its return.
It was effectively his vehicle and he accepted that when he saw the new partner in it he lost his temper.
Mr Finney said he had explained to his client that he could take action to recover the vehicle, but if he left it with her he could not dictate to her who should travel in it.
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