A MAN has been jailed and banned from seeing his mother for two years after he assaulted and swore at her.

Daniel John Holroyd, 20, of Denison Road, Selby, appeared at Selby Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with threatening Lindsey Dye, in Abbey Yard, Selby on June 16, swearing at staff at Wetherells department store on July 3 and finally assaulting his mother, Janet McIntyre, on July 5, before damaging her garden gate.

Katy Varlow, prosecuting, told magistrates Holroyd had entered Wetherells, in The Crescent, with a friend, picked up a football and began playing with it. When they were asked to leave by staff members, Holroyd swore at them.

Two days later he turned up at his mother’s house in Tennant Street. A friend of hers said she was not in, but he texted her about some tracksuit bottoms. His mother replied he had better not be in the house and returned.

When she arrived she let him in and he became abusive, swearing at her and calling her names. She tried to call the police, but he grabbed the phone from her hand. He then pushed her into the bathroom door and left, kicking the garden gate as he left.

The police were called and he was later arrested.

Mrs Varlow said Holroyd had a history of violence and had subjected his mother to two years of abuse.

Mitigating, Victoria Latham said her client had little family support as his mother wanted nothing to do with him and his father had only recently started to rebuild a relationship with his son.

She said Holroyd had no permanent address, had been sleeping rough and regularly sniffed butane gas.

She asked that any custodial sentence be suspended to allow Holroyd the chance to get on his feet.

But Helen Brown, chairman of the magistrates, said the offences were too serious.

She told Holroyd: “We feel your offences are so serious that only a custodial sentence is appropriate, particularly as the assault was committed in a domestic situation.”

Holroyd was banned from contacting his mother or entering Tennant Street for two years.

He was also jailed for three months for the assault and two months for the public order offence in Abbey Yard, making a total of five months’ imprisonment.

There was no separate penalty for the criminal damage or the trouble in Wetherells.