SWINDON woman Terri-Lee Pearce has been jailed for 12 weeks after breaching an Asbo numerous times.

Pearce, 33, of Woodsman Road, was arrested over the breaches, as well as for assaulting a police officer by spitting at her on Friday, January 6.

In 2014 the Advertiser reported that convicted prostitute Pearce was banned from seeing a pensioner on the grounds that she had fleeced him of savings of nearly £5,000.

Others living at the sheltered housing scheme where the pensioner lived were distressed by her visits.

On one occasion she was said to have got the man out of bed and taken him to a Tesco store in a bid to withdraw his money from a cash machine, but an alert security guard intervened.

Pearce was charged and remanded in custody on January 6 and appeared before Swindon magistrates the next day where she was remanded again.

When she appeared before Chippenham magistrates on Thursday, January 12, they were told that between December 2016 and January 4 she breached a restraining order 10 times and was jailed for six weeks in addition to previous suspended sentence being activated.

She was ordered to pay compensation of £50 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £115 for assaulting a constable in the execution of her duty.

PC Jess Swanborough said: "Thanks to a close working relationship with our partner agencies we managed to arrest and successfully charge this persistent offender.

"This proves that we take any breach of Asbos seriously, the message to anyone considering this is: 'if you have one and breach it, you will be caught and punished'."