A 32-year-old man who earlier this year deliberately ran over a woman with a motorcycle in a fit of rage, was convicted and imprisoned for violating a domestic protection order in Magistrates? Court yesterday.

This is the second time the man appeared before a Magistrate for violating the order. On August 18 he was given a $1,000 fine and a six-month suspended sentence for violating the order.

Yesterday the man ? who cannot be named for legal reasons ? was convicted of breaching the order on September 17.

The complainant told the court that she did not see the man on September 17 because it was dark, but that she could hear him yelling at her outside of her home.

After the complainant broke down in tears in the courtroom, Crown counsel Oonagh Vaucrosson read the remaining parts of her statement which said that the defendant had two friends with him when he breached the order.

?I fear for my life everyday because I do not know what he is going to do next,? said the complainant in her statement.

The defendant denied being on the property and told the court he was at the bottom of the driveway waiting for two of his workers.

He told Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo that he sent his workers to the complainant?s residence because they had to drop a landscaping bill off to the tenants of the upstairs apartment.

But his arguments failed to sway Mr. Tokunbo.

?The evidence came down to credibility and I did not accept the defendant?s evidence,? he said.

The defendant?s lawyer asked for leniency arguing that locking him up was not the answer.

?Perhaps that?s part of the problem, the court has tolerated this behaviour from him before,? Mr. Tukunbo said

He also said that the defendant had not taken advantage of the probation and suspended sentences he had already been given ?so the message this time has to be unequivocal and iron clad?.

Mr. Tukunbo activated the six-month suspended sentence from the previous conviction and sentenced the man to 10 months in prison for the September violation of the protection order, to be served concurrently.

He also ordered 18 months of probation after the defendant is released from prison and anger management courses.