A PROLIFIC offender who breached a restraining order forbidding him from pestering his grandmother has been jailed again.

Scott Weddell was originally slapped with the order banning him from entering Berinsfield, where his grandmother Jeanne Geddes lives, three years ago.

The 37-year-old was jailed for 16 months on Tuesday after admitting breaching the order for the 16th time, almost a year since he was last jailed for not complying with the order.

But Mrs Geddes told the Oxford Mail she thought the order should be scrapped and her grandson should be allowed back home.

She said: "They should have taken it [the order] off him years ago because this the only place where his home is. I do worry about my grandson, everybody would, even if they do get up to peculiar things."

Weddell, who appeared via video link from Woodhill Prison, sat slumped with his head in his hands as Recorder Richard Prior told him he had an "appalling" criminal record - 49 convictions for 91 offences.

Sentencing at Oxford Crown Court, he added: "It is clear that you have no regard for court orders. As things stand at the moment, you would appear to be beyond help. Your conduct is so serious that it must be marked with an immediate custodial sentence of significant length."

Prosecutor Alexander Wright said Weddell was first handed the restraining order after concerns his grandmother, now 90, was "vulnerable to exploitation".

He said officers were concerned he had been stealing from Ms Geddes, who has never supported any prosecution against her grandson.

Mr Wright said police discovered Weddell was in Berinsfield after a neighbour living next to his mother, who also resides in the village, was awoken just before 4.30am on June 19.

The prosecutor said the neighbour went outside to shut a gate she saw was open, later spotting Weddell walking between fencing and throwing a brick in the air.

He said the neighbour reported hearing a smash and spotted a hole in Weddell's mother's window, before he threatened the neighbour.

Mr Wright said Weddell was also seen by officers in a Berinsfield skate park, fleeing when police approached him but later being caught and arrested.

Defence barrister Timothy Greaves said Weddell, who was last jailed for 16 months for breaching the order in July 2015, had fallen into an "unfortunate cycle".

He said Weddell tends to go back to Berinsfield, where he grew up, after having "difficulties" in the same night shelter he is sent to following release from prison and then being left homeless.

Mr Greaves added: "It seems difficult to propose any solution to prevent this from happening."

The defence barrister went on to say both Weddell's mother and grandmother do let him stay in their homes on occasions.

Weddell, of no fixed abode, was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge.