South Shields man jailed just 24 hours after breaking court order by texting woman

Mark Darren Seff, 43, of Pine Avenue, South Shields, was locked up for more than four months after a court decided the offence was “so serious because the defendant has a flagrant disregard for court orders”.

Seff admitted breaching a 2016 restraining order without reasonable excuse on February 10 this year when he appeared before town magistrates the following day.

He also pleaded guilty to committing a similar offence just 24 hours earlier by ringing the woman on February 9.

Seff, who received credit for his immediate guilty pleas when his sentence was determined, was locked up for 18 weeks for the February 10 offence and received an 18-week concurrent jail term for the February 9 breach.

South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court also ordered him to pay a £128 victim surcharge by February 11 next year.

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