A CONVICTED sex offender who kicked his way into his former partner’s house before turning his anger on his own mother has been jailed.

Josh Duggan turned up at the house and confronted the woman’s two children before forcing his way into the property and trying to smash his way through a bedroom door where the two boys and their girlfriends had barricaded themselves in.

The 25-year-old then crossed the road on Woodland Street, Stockton, and started harassing his mother as he believed his former partner was in her home.

Teesside Crown Court heard how Duggan was subject to a restraining order and a non-molestation order to protect his mother and ex-partner.

Laura Jane Miller, prosecuting, said Duggan’s behaviour had left his ex-partner terrified for the safety of her children who were in her home helping her to renovate the property on December 15 last year.

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She told the court that the defendant became threatening and abusive when one of the boy’s started filming his behaviour on his mobile phone.

She said: “He said ‘if you don’t stop videoing me I will come and put your windows through’. The boys were present at the property, along with their girlfriends, and in order to protect themselves from the defendant they barricaded themselves into an upstairs bedroom.

“The defendant kicked open the door and caused damage, he made his way to the bedroom and kicked the door to try and gain access.”

Miss Miller told the court that he crossed the road and started confronting his mother and kicking her front door, despite her having a restraining order against him.

She said the defendant was also charged with a breach of a notification order after failing to tell police he had moved address in October last year.

Duggan, of Leybourne Terrace, Stockton, pleaded guilty to breaching a non-molestation order, a restraining order, criminal damage and failing to notify authorities about a change of his address as part of his sex offenders’ register requirements.

John Nixon, in mitigation, said: “He has a dreadful record, which he himself acknowledges, I have to accept that there are many aggravating factors about these offences before the court today.”

Judge Paul Watson QC, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, jailed Duggan for a total of eight months for all offences.

He said: “You have an appalling record going back many years when you were a much younger man, three convictions for criminal damage and numerous breaches of court orders made against you.”

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