ONE of Warrington’s most prolific offenders has been put back behind bars for his latest antics.

Public nuisance Dancing Chris was previously branded as a ‘drain on police resources’, having amassed a lengthy list of convictions.

The 67-year-old, whose full name is Christopher Berry, is the subject of a criminal behaviour order which aims to tackle the most serious and persistent offenders.

His latest breach of this order saw him hauled before Chester Magistrates’ Court last week, where he was again handed an immediate custodial sentence.

Jessica Pridding, of the Crown Prosecution Service, explained how the defendant committed two offences on August 18.

A number of conditions are attached to Berry’s criminal behaviour order, including a ban from Warrington town centre and a prohibition against ‘causing harassment, alarm and distress’.

Dancing Chris has been jailed again

Dancing Chris has been jailed again

But this is exactly what he did in Warrington, and when he was taken to Runcorn Custody Suite, he assaulted a police sergeant.

Berry was previously jailed for six months for the same two offences – breach of a criminal behaviour order and assault by beating of an emergency worker – in May.

District judge John McGarva took his guilty pleas for his latest offences into account but said that their severity merited immediate imprisonment.

Among the reasons for this included the defendant’s ‘flagrant disregard for court orders’, as well as that fact that this was ‘an unprovoked attack of a serious nature’.

Berry, of Huntley Street in Sankey Bridges, was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison.