A man has been jailed for 17 months for breaching four separate court orders – including flouting a suspended sentence for possession of an offensive weapon within days of it being imposed.

Alojz Girga, 33, of Southmere Avenue, Great Horton, Bradford, had been locked up in Leeds Prison since January when he appeared on a video link to be sentenced at Bradford Crown Court on Friday.

He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to breaching both a restraining order and a non-molestation order as well as a conditional discharge and the 54 day suspended sentence order.

Prosecutor Paul Nicholson said Girga’s victim in the latest offences was his ex-partner who had been in a 13 year relationship with him.

They had four children together and Girga refused to accept that things were over between them.

They lived at separate addresses in Bradford and he began following her.

On January 20, he turned up at her home at 9.20pm and banged on the door demanding to be let in.

She called the police and they arrived promptly on the scene.

But Girga was back at 10.30 the next morning, again wanting to come in. He was in the garden when the woman called the police.

She told officers: “This is causing me a lot of distress. He’s draining me emotionally.’

She also feared for her safety, saying he had assaulted her previously.

Girga told the police he did not understand the terms of the orders and went round for “money and stuff.”

He promised he would never go there again.

Mr Nicholson asked the court to impose a new five-year restraining order.

Girga’s barrister, Ian Howard, said he now accepted that the relationship was at an end. He was moving to a different part of the country when he was released from prison.

Girga had mental health issues and being held in custody since January was “a salutary lesson.”

Judge Jonathan Rose said Girga had been unable to accept that the relationship had ended some time ago and that the woman wanted nothing more to do with him.

He had persistently flouted court orders and breached the suspended sentence order within days of it being imposed.

Judge Rose jailed Girga for eight months for breaching the suspended sentence and the conditional discharge, with nine months to run consecutively for breaching the restraining and non-molestation orders, making a total term of imprisonment of 17 months.