Asbo breach troublemaker who shouted at woman vicar in Walsall is jailed

Gary Adams targeted the Reverend Elizabeth Jones last month in her garden.

Walsall Magistrates Court heard yesterday how Adams swore at Rev Jones and waved a pair of crutches in her direction. It is the sixth time Adams has breached his Asbo.

Adams, of Pinfold Street, Darlaston was handed an interim anti-social behaviour order in April ahead of the full order being put in force last month.

He was given a five-year Asbo at Walsall Magistrates Court at that hearing after he was found to have terrorised weddings and funerals.

The 55-year-old was barred from entering the grounds and buildings of St Matthew's Church in Walsall town centre and at St Jude's in Chuckery, and was also ordered not to be abusive to clergy and churchgoers.

But just a week later he breached the order for the fifth time by entering King Street, an area he was told to avoid and he was hauled back to court.

Miss Val Hart, prosecuting, told the court yesterday: "He was threatening and abusive to the Rev Jones.

"She was at home on June 25 mowing her lawn.

"This defendant stopped a few feet away from her. He was waving some crutches around.

"She felt visibly shaken and distressed by his behaviour."

Mr Sarbjit Singh Lalli, defending, said his client had 'issues' with alcohol. He added Adams could not remember what had happened that day.

Mr Lalli said: "It was a relatively short lived incident. There was a dividing fence between the two of them. There have been no incidents since June 25."

But District Judge Michael Morris told Adams: "You have yet again breached this Asbo so it's inevitable that you receive a prison sentence."