A man will await sentencing after he breached a domestic violence protection order against his former partner.

Hubert Douglas, 49, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court on Thursday to violating the order by coming within 100 feet of the woman.

The court heard that Douglas had the order placed against him on September 8 and co-ordinated the care of the pair’s three children with the help of a third party.

Audley Quallo, for the Crown, said that the woman got a call from her eldest son asking if Douglas could borrow her car to pick him up, which she declined.

Later that day, however, Douglas came to her job in Hamilton Parish and asked her directly to borrow her car.

She again refused, but he then went into her handbag and took her car keys anyway.

The court heard that the woman hid in the bathroom of her workplace and called the police, but later felt a force over the bathroom door and she locked it.

A short while later, a colleague informed the woman that her car door was left open but that Douglas was not around.

Police later arrived at Douglas’s Hamilton Parish home and arrested him. The incident happened on Wednesday.

Mr Quallo said that Douglas had previous convictions of a similar nature from as far back as 1991.

He told the court that Douglas’s most recent conviction was an assault charge from February, for which he was given a 12-month prison sentence that was suspended for two years.

Mr Quallo added that because this offence took place within the two-year time frame, Douglas was liable to serve the yearlong prison sentence.

Magistrate Maria Sofianos ordered Douglas to undergo a social inquiry report and adjourned the case until December 5 for sentencing.

She released him on $2,000 bail and ordered him to have no contact with his former partner.

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