A MAN has been jailed for eight weeks after he broke a court order aimed at protecting a woman during lockdown.

Samuel Peter Myers, 22, of Fletton Road, Norton, was banned from contacting a woman and from going to her York home after a district judge decided he had assaulted her.

He is believed to be the first person given a domestic violence prevention order since the lockdown began.

Within days of being made subject to the order on April 23, he broke it and police took him in custody to York Magistrates Court sitting in Leeds.

After he admitted breaching the order on April 30, he was jailed for 56 days.

Anyone suffering domestic abuse or sexual violence from a partner or a family member can contact Independent Domestic Abuse Services on 03000 110 110, by email info@idas.org.uk or by visiting their website www.idas.org.uk.

The charity has a York base and runs refuges, helplines and other means of support.

It urges anyone in an emergency to dial 999.

Anyone can leave their home to save themselves or their children from serious injury or death.