A MAN has been jailed for several months and ordered not to enter a Dorset supermarket for two years.

Alexander Anthony Thorpe was in the dock at Poole Magistrates’ Court on November 22 in relation to an incident at M&S in High Street, Christchurch.

Thorpe, aged 50 and of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to a single charge of with intent to cause a woman harassment, alarm or distress, using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour. The incident took place on May 13.

Bournemouth Echo:

Thorpe was committed to prison for 12 weeks and ordered to pay a £128 surcharge.

He was also issued a two-year restraining order, which instructed him not to contact the victim and not to enter M&S in Christchurch for any reason including passing through it.

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