Egremont man made drunken late-night visit to ex in breach of restraining order

A man who reached into a bedroom window at his former partner’s Egremont home in the dead of night — despite being ordered not to contact her — has been handed a prison sentence.

Josh Aaron Dunn, 23, was originally punished by a judge at Carlisle Crown Court in November 2020, having gone to the woman’s house, turned aggressive and threatened to “batter” her.

Dunn was jailed for 20 months and handed a restraining order through which prohibited him from making any approach towards her and entering a residential street in Egremont.

But at around 2.25am on January 9, while the woman was in bed, she heard loud banging on the front door. She then heard someone climbing onto a flat roof before a bedroom window was opened. She heard the intruder speaking and recognised the voice as Dunn’s.

He put his arms through the window, grabbing hold of curtains as if trying to pull them down. As the woman called police, she could see Dunn running across a car park towards his home at Beckgreen.

Gerard Rogerson told Carlisle Crown Court of the impact on the woman: “The incident, she says, has left her feeling angry and scared.”

Dunn admitted acting in breach of a restraining order and, the court heard, had been recalled to prison to complete the remainder of his original sentence having spent several months in the community on licence.

His barrister, Anthony Parkinson, said the incident was not premeditated or planned. “In reality, a “silly, foolish error by him after a night of drinking, temptation getting the better of him” on this occasion,” said Mr Parkinson.

Judge Nicholas Barker imposed 19 weeks’ imprisonment for the breach, telling Dunn his unwanted late-night visit had been a “distressing invasion of her privacy”.