FORMER Skipton man Craig Boyd has been sent to prison for eight weeks for the 'flagrant' breach of a court order.
Boyd, 35, denied entering the Wilderness Woods in Skipton on January 27 this year - despite a criminal behaviour order imposed by the town's magistrates in March, last year, banning him from doing so.
He was due to appear at York Magistrates Court on Tuesday for a trial, but failed to turn up. He was found guilty in his absence and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Yesterday (Wednesday), magistrates at York sent him to prison for eight weeks saying it was a 'flagrant breach of a court order and that no other sentence was appropriate'.
Boyd, of Parkwood Rise, Keighley, admitted a further charge of failing to answer bail and to appear in court on Tuesday. Magistrates took his guilty plea into account, and there was no separate penalty. He will have to pay a surcharge of £128.
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