A 24-year-old nuisance has been jailed for threatening behaviour in Worcester after previously throwing tiles off a city roof while drunk.

Jack Payne of Britannia Road, Worcester admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to case harassment, alarm or distress when he appeared before city magistrates on Thursday.

He was jailed for two weeks following offence, committed on August 11 this year in Worcester just days after he caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to a city roof before his dad arrived and talked him down.

We reported in September how Payne appeared over videolink from prison at Worcester Crown Court after admitting criminal damage and affray when he was also made subject to a new criminal behaviour order.

On that last occasion Recorder David Mason QC had said: “Good luck Jack Payne. Let’s not see you again.”

Payne threw the tiles off a roof onto the street below in All Saints Road in the city centre in the early hours of August 5.

Video footage of the incident, which lasted two and a half hours, was played to the court in which an officer tried to reason with the defendant. He could be heard telling Payne: “Jack, I’m concerned about you agitated on top of a building. I’m trying to help you.”

The officer also warns people walking by on the street below, telling them to ‘stand back’ and ‘watch out’ because of the falling tiles.

The only response from the defendant to the officer was a tirade of swear words, prosecutor Paul Fairley describing the swearing as ‘profuse’.

Before these matters Payne had 20 previous convictions for 38 offences including what the prosecutor called in September ‘a litany of examples of antisocial behaviour’ which resulted in a criminal behaviour order being issued. He has offences of his record for being drunk and disorderly, threatening behaviour and criminal damage. We have previously reported how he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly after being 'a nuisance to women' in Velvet nightclub in Worcester. He also kicked out at a police car wing mirror and racially abused a city taxi driver.

Because the previous criminal behaviour order had expired the judge made a new three year order which prohibits the defendant from being aggressive, intimidating, threatening and verbally abusive towards any person. He is also banned from drinking alcohol in a public place with the exception of licensed premises.

In September Recorder Mason sentenced him to 14 months in prison suspended for two years.

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