A DISTRICT judge has jailed a man for using threatening behaviour towards a probation worker in Carlisle.

It happened on August 13, the city’s Rickergate court heard.

Kieran Raymond Michael Tilley, from Lowther Street in the city, was jailed for seven weeks.

He pleaded guilty to using threatening and abusive behaviour and to causing criminal damage to a cell at Carlisle’s Durranhill Police HQ by smearing faeces on the cell door and by urinating on the floor, so that the cell had to be professionally cleaned.

At the time the defendant was serving a suspended sentence for an earlier offence of threatening behaviour.

As well as jailing Tilley, District Judge Gerald Chalk ordered that he should pay £100 in compensation to his victim.

The judge said the offence was serious because the victim was a key worker and because of the defendant's previous criminal record.