Thug banned from seeing his mum after beating her up turned up at her house - as he 'wanted to go back to jail'

A man with an ‘appalling record’ deliberately breached a restraining order by turning up at his mum’s house - he told her to call the police as he ‘wanted to go back to jail’. Mark Price, 41, had previously been handed a restraining order banning him from contacting his mum or going to her house.

He’d previously assaulted his mum, and had been jailed for a year after harassing her in a four-year-long campaign. But, following his release from prison on December 16 2021, Price, of Audenshaw, went back to his mum’s house at around 6.30am and knocked on her door.

She came downstairs and looked through the spyhole to see him standing there, Minshull Street Crown Court heard. He asked her to let him in, then told her to phone the police as he ‘wanted to go back to jail’.

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“Three hours later he returned and knocked on the window. Again he asked her to ring the police and at this stage she did call the police,” Rachel Cooper, prosecuting, said. “When the police arrived, he walked into the road, was waving his arms around and thanked the officers.

“They observed that he was either drunk or under the influence of heroin or crack cocaine. The Crown would say this was a deliberate breach of the restraining order.”

Price was said to have 24 previous convictions for 43 offences, the majority of which were breaches of restraining orders in relation to his mum and his ex-partner. Whilst he has been remanded on licence, Price was said to have ‘never looked better’ as he has appeared to have reduced his drug intake, his barrister Nicholas Clarke said.

“He had been on the street, and at that time he preferred to be in Forest Bank,” he said. In December 2021 he was hungry