Stockton man breached court order on day it was imposed

Jamie Cossavella was made subject of a domestic abuse protection order in a bid to protect his mother but he chose to repeatedly ignore the order.

The 44-year-old was served with the court notice on the day he breached it for the first time, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Harriet Eglinton, prosecuting, said Cossavella was barred from attending his mother’s home but a support worker spotted him hiding behind the door after rummaging through her cupboards looking for food.

She said: “The court granted the domestic abuse protection order and, on that evening, the defendant attended his mother’s address and she didn’t let him in to her home.

“While he was trying to get in, his mother called 999 and while she was on the phone he broke in through a window.”

Miss Eglinton said the defendant returned to his mother’s house on June 5 when he was found hiding in the garage with keys for the property tucked in his pocket.

Cossavella, of Craggs Street, Stockton, pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching his domestic abuse protection order on May 15 and June 5 last year.

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Robert Mochrie, mitigating, said his client accepted that the breaches were significant.

Recorder Peter Makepeace sentenced Cossavella to a total of 15 months for both breaches of the court order.

He said: “You had been arrested in respect of domestic offences committed against your mother two nights before, the breaches were committed shortly after the order was made and the protected person was particularly vulnerable.”

Cossavella was also made subject of a two-year restraining order.