A TEENAGE yob who drove a woman from her home with a torrent of homophobic abuse has been jailed.

Jordan Greer, aged 18, was found guilty of using threatening, abusive or insulting words with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress at Bolton Magistrates Court on Friday.

He was sent to jail for three months after his solicitor Peter Hayes said Greer would refuse to comply with any other sentence.

Victim Jodie Power said she had to move house because she felt so unsafe after Greer launched a verbal attack.

The court was told how on November 26 last year Miss Power returned to her home in River View Court, Tonge Moor, to find a group of boys playing football at the flats.

She asked them to move on because they were causing a nuisance for an elderly woman who lives at the apartments.

Miss Power went inside, and said she saw Greer kick a ball at her car. She went outside to challenge him, and he was abusive towards her.

She went to speak to his mother and, when she returned, he shouted more insulting comments about her sexuality.

Miss Power told the court: “I have got a little girl and I did not feel safe. I was really scared that evening and I thought he was going to hurt me.

“I have moved house because of this, I just could not live there anymore.”

Miss Power said she knew Greer because she was friends with his mother. She said he “turned nasty” towards her after she asked him to stop using the stairwell of the flats to smoke cannabis.

Michael Cresswell, chairman of the bench, said the magistrates were minded to impose a community-based penalty, but sentenced Greer, of no fixed abode, to three months in prison after being told he was unwilling to comply with any other punishment.

amanda.smith@ theboltonnews.co.uk