A woman had to give up her job and “feels like a prisoner in her own home” because of the activities of her ex-partner, magistrates have been told.

The weekend court at Llandudno decided against seeking a probation report and instead jailed 30-year-old Aaron Scarlett for eight months after he admitted twice breaking restraining orders not to contact Rebecca Evans.

The orders were imposed last April when he was sent to prison for seven separate assaults on her, prosecutor Rhian Jackson said.

Court chairman John Rooney said only custody was appropriate because of a sustained campaign of telephone calls and visits to her house. There were other aggravating features, such as her being forced to leave home at one stage, at a time when Scarlett was on post-prison supervision.

Magistrates ordered that he should not be within 200 metres of her home at Bangor, and when he is released Scarlett , a petrol station support worker of Church Street, Bodedern, has to pay £150 costs.

Mrs Jackson said Miss Evans had to give up her job after a short time because Scarlett walked past continually. "She’s scared of making him angry,” she added.

On Thursday she dialled 999 after hearing the door bell and when police arrived an officer picked up her mobile when Scarlett had called.

“She fears she must leave home again to avoid him, being too scared to live on her own because of him.”

Scarlett had been arrested in the Midlands and in a statement admitted breaching the order but said he wanted to see his young son.

Richard Williams, defending, suggested conditional bail until Scarlett could be seen by a probation officer at Caernarfon court.

However, after a retirement, the chairman announced that they did not consider a report would help, and that Scarlett would be sent to prison because the case was so serious.