A MAN who threatened his former girlfriend’s new partner has been handed a 12-month restraining order by Worcester magistrates.

Kieran Reuben Pheasey, of Milward Close, Worcester, was arrested on Saturday, October 29, after shouting threats outside the home of Matthew Juliard in Tenbury Wells,.

Prosecutor Owen Beale told Worcester magistrates that Pheasey had previously been in a relationship with a woman who was now seeing Mr Juliard.

He said: “Mr Juilard was at home asleep, and was woken up by the sound of several bangs on the door.”

The disturbance also woke Mr Juliard’s parents, who live at the same address.

“Mr Pheasey was banging the door and shouting abuse. He also went over to Mr Juliard’s car and kicked it,” said Mr Beale.

“He said: ‘I’m going to kill you and the rest of your family. Do you know who my family are?’ He took his top off and continued to shout threats.”

The police were called and Pheasey was arrested not long afterwards close to Mr Juliard’s home.

After he was arrested, he told police that he had heard from friends that Mr Juliard had been using insulting language to describe him.

“He told police that he had drunk five pints but he said he was not drunk.”

Pheasey, who is 27 years old, pleaded guilty to using threatening works and behaviour, and also for breaching a criminal behaviour order which had been imposed on him by Worcester magistrates in November 2017 for a similar offence.

He told police that he had thought that the criminal behaviour order had expired by the date he committed the latest offence.

Barry Newton, for Pheasey, said that he had made the mistake of listening to “gossips and rumour-mongers” and acting on what he had said.

“He went to that address and was certainly causing a nuisance. But he did not do anything else; he did not force his way in, he did not smash the windows of the house.”

Magistrates imposed the restraining order, which lasts for a year and prohibits Pheasey from making any contact with Mr Juliard or his parents, and from visiting their address in Tenbury Wells.

He was also ordered to complete 80 hours of unpaid work, and pay compensation of £200, costs of £100 and an £85 victim surcharge.