Magistrates ordered a man to stop harassing his wife after they split up.

Paul Parrington, 35, formerly of Faringdon but now living in Swindon, was bound over after a court heard he pestered his wife with phone calls and kept turning up at her home.

Parrington was set to deny harassment charges before Wantage magistrates. But the charges were withdrawn after he agreed to be bound over for 12 months in the sum of £100.

Abdullah Al-Yunusi, prosecuting, told magistrates Parrington and his wife, Diane, had split up and she was now suing for divorce.

Parrington had been instructed by Oxford County Court not to harass her but he kept phoning her and making visits to the former marital home in Faringdon. He was arrested on July 28.

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