A SERIAL offender has been put back behind bars for being a nuisance once again.

Jimmy Artell is no stranger to being in court or custody, having amassed a number of previous convictions.

The public nuisance is subject to a criminal behaviour order, which is a court order which aims to tackle the most serious and persistent offenders whose behaviour sees them hauled before the courts.

The 41-year-old was handed his criminal behaviour order in August last year by the courts following a drunken crime spree.

Artell was also jailed for 44 weeks at Chester Crown Court after admitting sexual assault, assault by beating, failing to comply with the sex offender’s register and criminal damage.

Through his five-year criminal behaviour order, Artell is prohibited from being drunk in any public place in England and Wales and from being in possession of an open container of alcohol in a public place.

He is also banned from having physical contact with any person while intoxicated, except for a legitimate purpose or with their consent.

But he is now back in prison, having been charged with breaching his criminal behaviour order, two counts of being convicted of an offence while subject to a community order and one of failing to comply with post-sentence supervision requirements.

Chester Magistrates’ Court heard on Friday, October 28, how Artell was found drunk in public in Warrington the day before.

This put him in breach of a community order issued earlier that same month for another breach of his order, while he also failed to comply with his supervision requirements imposed following his previous release from prison by committing further offences.

Artell, of Allen Street near the town centre, was told by magistrates that he has a ‘flagrant disregard for court orders’.

After pleading guilty to the offences, he was jailed for 28 days and ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £154.