A MAN has admitted twice breaching a criminal behaviour order by drinking from an open can of alcohol in Worcester.

Robert Evans, aged 44, of Astwood Road, Worcester, admitted being in breach of the criminal behaviour order when he appeared before city magistrates on Thursday.

Evans appeared via videolink from HMP Hewell where he is a serving a 12 week sentence imposed on July 31 after a suspended sentence was activated.

The breaches happened on July 17 and July 18 in Worcester.

Roger Bleazard, prosecuting, said the criminal behaviour order was imposed on January 7, 2016 and was due to expire in January, 2018.

A number of conditions are attached to the order, including not drinking alcohol in designated areas.

Mr Bleazard said on occasion of the second breach Evans was in The Trinity in Worcester, by the church, and tried to claim he was drinking lemonade but later admitted it was alcohol.

He said: “Unfortunately Mr Evans does have a number of matters of breaching the criminal behaviour order. He simply drinks alcohol in an area he should not be because the court had imposed an order he should not.”

Gary Harper, defending, said: “It’s not said by anyone that what Mr Evans was doing was causing harassment, alarm or distress although clearly it was a breach of the order.”

Mr Harper said Evans was a block paver but work had not been available to him more recently because of problems with his back where he has suffered slipped discs.

He asked that Evans be given credit for his early guilty plea.

Magistrates imposed a two week prison sentence which will run concurrently with the sentence he is already serving. They revoked a community order with a six month drug rehabilitation requirement.

Evans would have had to pay a £115 victim surcharge but this was deemed served by virtue of the sentence imposed.