A YOUNG woman no longer feels safe in her own home after her ex partner went into her house, laid on her bed and hid below a window, York Crown Court heard.

Luke Andrew Patrice had already served one prison sentence for breaching a non-molestation order when he phoned the woman from outside her Tadcaster home asking to be let in, despite being banned from going into her street and from contacting her.

She was at her mother’s at the time, and was so terrified to return home that she spent the night at a hotel. When she did get home the next morning, she realised someone had been inside it and called police. Officers found Patrice crouching in the garden under her living room window. Inside, she saw he had laid on her bed.

“The incident has left her feeling unsafe in her own home,” said Ms Pryke, prosecuting.

Patrice, 29, now living in Huddersfield, pleaded guilty to two breaches of a non-molestation order made in 2013. He has two previous convictions for breaking court orders aimed at protecting her, including by sending her cannabis in the post.

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“You don’t seem to be able to understand that the relationship is over,” the Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Batty QC told Patrice.

As he passed sentence, Patrice asked to speak then made allegations that his former partner had stitched him up.

The judge stopped him, saying: “I will not hear more of this tirade. I am not prepared to hear a character assassination of your former partner.” He jailed Patrice for ten months.

Ms Pryke said the non-molestation order forbids Patrice from contacting his ex-partner or going to her street.

For Patrice, Nicoleta Alistari said none of the breaches of the court order had involved violence or the threat of violence. He was currently remanded in custody but had the promise of a job on his release and was hoping to be “taken seriously in the motorbike racing arena”.

Ms Pryke said police had had to be called to the couple’s home while they were in a relationship because he was abusive towards his ex-partner.