A MAN from Cirencester has been jailed for more than two years for attempting to strangle a woman.

Adam Savoury, aged 31, of Weavers Road, Cirencester, was subjected to a non-molestation order by Swindon County Court on December 9 last year which prohibited him from going to the home address of a woman in Cirencester. 

The order also prohibited Savoury from contacting the woman.

Despite this order prosecutor Ehsanul Oarith said in the trial at Gloucester Crown Court yesterday (June 6) that the woman called the police and informed them that Savoury and two others were at her address on Saturday, January 21.

The prosecutor said: "By the time officers arrived at the woman’s home Savoury and the two other men had left the property. 

"The police saw Savoury jumping over a back fence into a neighbouring garden. 

"The neighbours shouted to the police that the man they were looking for was in their back garden.

“Savoury caused damage to this fence and this has been appropriately dealt by local magistrates in January.”

The court was told that on Saturday, February 4 the police received a silent emergency call from the woman.

When police arrived at the address none answered the door so after ten minutes they forced their way into the property, found Savoury inside and arrested him.

Mr Oarith explained that after Savoury’s court appearance the woman had been contacted by a family member of Savoury asking her to contact him.

Following this call she allowed Savoury to stay at her home.

Mr Oarith said:"During his stay Savoury continued taking drugs and was using both cocaine and heroin.

"On February 4, Savoury’s actions snowballed with him pinning the woman against the wall, grabbing her face and squeezed it."

Catherine Spedding, defending, said: “Savoury admits that he should have not breached the order. 

"He states he was invited to stay with the woman because he had become homeless. 

“Before these set of offences Savoury had been working as a groundsman and was living independently.

"However, he fell in with the wrong crowd and developed a drug habit.

"He was arrested and recalled to prison for breaking his parole conditions. 

“Savoury was released from prison on December 22 last year and because he was still homeless he stayed with friends and dropped back into old ways with drugs."

Savoury pleaded guilty to the intentional strangulation of the woman on February 4, 2023, assault by beating her on the same date and two charges of breaching a non-molestation order on January 21, 2023 and February 4, 2023. 

He will now serve two years and four months in prison.

Judge Michael Longman told Savoury: “The order was made against you was designed to protect her.

"But just over a month after the order was made, and not long after your release from prison, you assaulted her at her home address. 

“These offences when taken together are so serious they cross the custody threshold and were committed in breach of a court order."