A 35-year-old man who twice breached a domestic violence order in a single day was sent to prison for three months yesterday.

The defendant ? who cannot be named for legal reasons ? visited his former partner at her St. George's home just five days after being given a three-month suspended jail sentence for the same offence.

Prosecutor Paula Tyndale told Magistrates' Court that on Tuesday the man, of no fixed abode, went to the house despite knowing that a domestic violence order prohibited him from doing so.

Ms Tyndale said the complainant told the man he was breaching the order and tried to call the Police but he took the telephone from her. He eventually left.

The Police came to the house later that morning but after they left, the defendant turned up again.

He took the phone from the woman and disappeared from view. She thought he had left but then found him asleep on her upstairs porch.

The man pleaded guilty to two counts of breaching the order yesterday.

Llewellyn Peniston, mitigating, said that the pair met for an "amicable" lunch last Friday ? the day after his client was given the suspended jail term.

He claimed that on Monday the defendant went to his ex-partner's house for a sexual encounter but she asked him to leave because she thought he had received a telephone call from another woman.

"It has often been said: 'hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'," said Mr. Peniston. "This was a momentary lapse on his part and all of us, as human beings are capable of weakness.

"The Lord asked Adam not to go near Eve and he did. I would suggest that Adam would have been the subject of a domestic violence order."

But Mr. Warner said he had anticipated that weakness "having read the Bible" and had warned the man of the consequences of it last week in court.

He sentenced the defendant to three months in jail for each charge and activated the suspended jail sentence, all to run concurrently.