A SON from Bolton who terrorised his parents, ignoring restraining orders to demand food, drink and cash, has been jailed for 16 months.

Drug addict Antony Burrough repeatedly turned up at the couple’s Empire Road home, Bolton Crown Court heard.

Betsy Hindle, prosecuting told how 38-year-old Burrough was initially banned from contacting his parents, Susan and David Burrough, in 2007 but has been convicted, several times, of ignoring the restriction.

On June 24 Mrs Burrough spotted her son standing in the back garden and handed him a hot drink after he requested one.

She shut the back door and went upstairs but when her husband came home he discovered money was missing from a tin in the dining room and there was no sign of a bank card.

Later Burrough turned up at the house again and asked for food. He was refused but handed a bottle of pop. The next day he was back demanding food and money.

When he began hammering on the back door Mrs Burrough went into the back garden.

“It was at this point the defendant made threats to Mrs Burrough saying she was not going to leave the garden,” said Miss Hindle.

Burrough smashed a hanging basket on the ground and picked up a bin, demanding money, threatening to throw it.

“After several minutes of being held in the garden, Mrs Burrough surrendered and agreed to give the defendant money,” said Miss Hindle, with the mother throwing £50 out of the front window at her son.

“She is adamant if she had not given in on that occasion he would have hurt her,” said Miss Hindle.

On September 17 he returned, with his father spotting him using a hosepipe in the garden to wash himself down.

Police were called after he began banging on the window and swearing and, on October 11, officers arrested him after he was found sleeping rough in a tent.

Burrough, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to three counts of breaching a restraining order.

Thomas Worsfold, defending, said Burrough described the relationship with his parents as “blowing hot and cold”.

“He knows he shouldn’t be anywhere near the property. He attends when he is in desperate circumstances,” said Mr Worsfold.

Jailing Burrough, Judge Graeme Smith told him: “In many respects this is a very sad case. It’s clear you face significant difficulties which stem from the lifestyle choices you made very many years ago.

“That choice, which results particularly in your abuse of amphetamines, has resulted in the complete breakdown of your relationship with your parents and has put them, frankly, in an utterly impossible position.

“What parent would not have some level of sympathy with a child who presents as you do."