Locations
Trenoweth Crescent, Penzance, TR18
Description
A sex offender with a flagrant disregard for court orders has found himself behind bars again.
Shaun Paul Roberts, 32, is no stranger to Cornwalls courts.
In May 2020 CornwallLive reported how Roberts was given a suspended sentence after being found by police slashing his face with a razor blade after harassing his terrified former partner.
Weeks later he was back at Truro Crown Court again and jailed for going straight to the woman he was banned from contacting and breaching a restraining order - on the day he was given it.
Roberts told her: "If I want to be with you, Ill f***ing be with you, I dont care about the restraining order."
Now, 18 months or so later, Roberts, now of Trenoweth Crescent in Penzance, was back in the dock, this time at Truro Magistrates Court.
Roberts was sentenced after pleading guilty to between February 8 and 24 once again breaching a restraining order.
He also admitted failing to notify a change of address which he was required to do as a registered sex offender, and possession of cannabis.
Magistrates said the offence was so serious because the defendant has a flagrant disregard for court orders and because the offence was aggravated by the defendant's record of previous offending.
Roberts was jailed for 12 months and the cannabis ordered to be destroyed.