A MAN who breached a restraining order shortly after being released from prison has been sent back behind bars.

Adam Michel McGurk was previously jailed for assaulting his then partner Harriet Glyn during an attack at her home in Barrow.

But soon after being released he visited her home, breaching the restraining order.

South Cumbria Magistrates' Court heard how the 36-year-old McGurk visited her home on June 25.

The court heard the defendant was on licence from prison when he breached the order.

Admitting harassment, McGurk, of Barrow's Melbourne Street, was jailed for six weeks.

Magistrates said the offence was 'so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified'.

The court said he had shown 'disregard' for the restraining order by 'entering the protected person's address who you had previously assaulted which led to the order being made.

McGurk was jailed for 18 weeks in March and made the subject of a two-year restraining order.

It came after he assaulted the woman in front of her daughter and then hit out further at her friend who came to help.

The defendant was found guilty of three counts of assault following a trial at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court.

The court heard he assaulted Miss Glyn and her friend Duncan Rose on September 19.

McGurk assaulted her again on November 16. 

At the earlier hearing, prosecutor Peter Kelly said the first assault took place in front of the victim's daughter after McGurk had been drinking.

"She was at home with her daughter," he said.

"She was upstairs and the defendant was in a different room drinking.

"At one point he staggered into the living room and she and her daughter laughed at him.

"He became aggressive and was shouting.

"She says at that point she asked him to do some domestic chores.

"He's then grabbed her by the throat and pushed her round the sink.

"Her daughter started to scream and was crying as well."

The court heard how the woman then called for her friend to help.

When he arrived she stood between the defendant and the victim.

He was then punched a number of times in the back of the head by McGurk and hit back at him in self-defence.

Mr Kelly said McGurk told the man he would 'knock your lights out'.

On the morning of November 16, Miss Glyn described being woken up by a noise and found the defendant outside her home.

He punched her 'multiple times' to the forehead and arm.