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A thug who tried to bite his mother's fingers off failed to fulfil his pledge not to breach a restraining order.
Callum Crang visited her home in Darlington and carried out the attack on October 28, 2024, despite being banned from contacting her.
Ring doorbell footage captured him, but his claim that the man was his brother fell flat as he repeatedly answered to his own name.
Callum Crang given a total 22-month prison sentence after admitting attempted burglary and breaching both restraining and suspended sentence orders
The court heard that a psychiatric report described Crang as having low intelligence but was trying to tackle drug and alcohol dependency, while in prison.
Despite 11 previous convictions for 23 offences, he was given a 20-month prison sentence suspended for two years at the court, on June 24 last year.
At the end of that hearing, Crang apologised to his mother and told Recorder Simon Jackson KC: "I promise I won't be coming back to court for this restraining order or anything. I'm disgusted at myself."
Despite that pledge, 29-year-old Crang was back in court by video link from Holme House Prison on Thursday (October 8).
He was facing sentence after admitting attempted burglary and another breach of the restraining order, triggering the suspended sentence.
Crang tried to enter a property in Westminster Road, Darlington as a trespasser, with intent to steal, on March 3 this year.
Judge Francis Laird KC, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, told Crang his latest breach of the restraining order, on October 24 last year, was “not the most serious of breaches, but it must be viewed in the light of your antecedent history.”
But he said the defendant only admitted the attempted burglary shortly before a scheduled trial.
The judge said Crang had also completed “very little useful work” under last year’s suspended sentence order.
He added: “Clearly, then, only a custodial sentence is now appropriate.”
The judge imposed 10 months for the attempted burglary and restraining-order breach, consecutive to 12 months activated from the suspended sentence, making 22 months in total.