A teenager has been locked up for 12 months after he caused damage at his mother’s home in Huddersfield while under a suspended sentence.
Leeds Crown Court heard Callam Jervis was given the suspended sentence earlier this year for a burglary committed in February when an untidy search was made of a property and a laptop and Kindle reader were stolen.
John Bull, prosecuting, said Jervis was identified because his fingerprints were found on a television set that was moved. When he was arrested he obstructed police by giving his twin brother’s details but was eventually identified through his tattoos.
On July 17 Jervis was at his mother’s home in St James Way, Rawthorpe, after she refused to lend him some money he threatened to rip the television off the wall.
On August 4 he was let into the property by his sister while his mother was out. When she returned he was asked to leave but refused to do so.
Mr Bull said Jervis picked up a kitchen knife and used it to stab holes into the wall near the staircase causing £100 damage.
Vincent Blake-Barnard representing Jervis said after a fall out at home he had been sleeping rough returning to the property on occasions. He suffered from ADHD and found it difficult to deal with anger.
The first incident after an argument he had only threatened damage but not done anything, while on the second it was limited to holes in some plasterboard.
He said Jervis’s mother had accepted his apology and had visited him in prison. “He accepts his behaviour was unacceptable and that he cannot continue this way in the future.”
Jervis, 19, said to be of no fixed address, admitted threatening to cause damage and criminal damage.
Sending him to a young offender institution for 12 months, Recorder Paul Miller said in March he had been given a chance with the suspended sentence.
“That doesn’t seem to have made much impression on you because by July after an argument about money you threatened to damage property and returned in August and did cause damage.”
