Son chased mother's ex through Market Drayton on bike
A man threatened his mother's ex-partner and then chased him on a bike through a Shropshire town, a court was told.
The victim was forced to run into a shop in Market Drayton as he tried to get away from Adrian Davies, said Mrs Abigail Hall, prosecuting at Telford Magistrates Court.
Mrs Hall said that the victim had been in a relationship with the defendant's mother for 14 years but that the two had separated in October 2014 after he had had an affair.
She said that the victim had expected "some problems due to the circumstances" but that the level of abuse he had received continued to the point that he felt he was being harassed. "Whenever he would see the defendant in the streets he would make threats towards him," she said.
Mrs Hall told magistrates about two incidents in the car park at Asda in Market Drayton and outside St Mary's Church. On August 14 the defendant, a 23-year-old father of two, had jumped over a wall at Asda car park and approached victim as he sat in his car and began threatened him.
Magistrates heard that Davies was subsequently served with a harassment warning notice by police. However on September 2 the victim had been sitting with a friend outside St Mary's Church in the town when the defendant arrived.
The victim's friend approached the defendant to say that this was not the time or place for a fight, but the victim decided to run from the scene with Davies following on his bike. Mrs Hall said the victim ran into the New Life shop on Cheshire Street where he knew a member of staff who ordered Davies to get out when he came in.
Davies, yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of harassment without violence between August 1 and September 2, 2015.
For the Probation Service, Chris Hughes said that Davies, of Stafford Street, Market Drayton, admitted he had "blown a fuse" but claimed that the victim had been smirking at him on several occasions. "He maintains it won't happen again," said Mr Hughes.
The court was told that Davies, who is unemployed, had literacy problems and would benefit from probation supervision which could help him gain some qualifications. He was given a one-year community order with 30 days of rehabilitation activities and fined £50 plus court costs of £295.
Magistrates also served him with an indefinite restraining order to keep away from the victim and not to contact him.
