A DRUG addict has been jailed for 14 months after he screamed abuse at his mother when she would not give him cash.

Jason Pasquill was banned from going to his mum's home by a court order but Bolton Crown Court heard how he ignored it on two occasions in September and yelled, "I hope you die a slow and painful death" when she refused his demands for money.

Jailing 45-year-old Pasquill, Recorder Ciaran Rankin told him: "You should be ashamed of yourself."

Adam Watkins, prosecuting, told how, in January last year, Pasquill's mother, who is in ill health suffering from COPD and emphysema, was granted a non-molestation order against her son.

It bans him from contacting her or going her home in Hindley, but on the afternoon of September 25 Pasquill turned up at the address.

"He was pestering her for money but she refused because she knew he would have spent it on drugs and drink," said Mr Watkins.

"When she told him that she wasn't prepared to give him any money he was verbally abusive and told her to 'drop dead'.

"'I hope you die a slow and painful death with your lungs,' he said."

When she shut the door on him he began to kick it and punched a window, attempting to break it, before walking away.

Four days later Pasquill, of Argyle Street, Hindley, returned in the morning and was drunk and on drugs. He asked again for cash.

He was abusive when refused and returned two hours later claiming he was going to kill himself.

"His mother believes that was to try and make her feel sorry for him so that she would let him stay and give him money," said Mr Watkins.

He became abusive again when refused.

The court heard that Pasquill has convictions for 73 previous offences, including breaching orders not to contact his mother.

Thomas Worsfold, defending, said Pasquill, who has a personality disorder, had gone to his mum's home "in desperation".

"He tells me he finds custody far easier to cope with which, perhaps, is a sign of the sad situation that his life is in at present," said Mr Worsfold.

As well as the prison sentence, Recorder Rankin made a restraining order banning Pasquill from contacting his mother for a further five years.