A released York prisoner is today (Thurs) back behind bars with an extra sentence after he broke his electronic tag.

Michael Bailey, 26, handed himself in to police at about midnight on Tuesday saying he couldn't live with his wife any longer, York magistrates heard.

After just two weeks of freedom on an early release from a five-month sentence, he had torn off the electronic tag that ensures he observes a nightly curfew.

The next morning, the Home Office revoked his early release and ordered him back to prison to serve the remainder of his time.

In the afternoon, York magistrates gave him a 28-day prison sentence for the £2,350 damage to the tagging equipment.

They ordered him to serve it concurrently to his five-month sentence.

Bailey, of Burlington Avenue, Tang Hall, pleaded guilty to criminal damage.

On May 10, he was jailed for five months for driving whilst disqualified towards the end of a three-year ban, driving without insurance and giving police a false name. It was the third time he had broken a driving ban.

Prosecutor Vivienne Walsh said police were called to his home at about 11.15pm where they found a black box, part of the electronic tag system, lying damaged on the ground.

They took it to Fulford Road Police Station where Bailey had already arrived.

For Bailey, Craig Robertson said during his time in prison, Bailey's wife had been seeing another man.

The former prisoner found out the truth on Tuesday, confronted her about her unfaithfulness and realised he could not continue to live with her.

He tore off his tag, got on his bike and went to the police station to be arrested and sent back to prison.

"His five-year marriage in his eyes is perhaps over," said Mr Robertson.

In May, magistrates heard Bailey was filling up a car with petrol when a police car pulled up behind him. He gave a false name in the hope of evading detection for driving whilst disqualified, but the policewoman spotted him on a later day and arrested him.

His five-month sentence expires on October 9.