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A Mt Maunganui teenager, who a judge said had made his mother's life "an absolute misery", was jailed today for repeatedly breaching a protection order she had taken out against him.
Jacob Olsen, 18, unemployed, stood in the dock at Tauranga District Court grimacing and fidgeting as Judge Thomas Ingram sentenced him to a total of six months behind bars.
"You still haven't got your head on straight," said the judge.
"I don't think you have any sense of responsibility at all."
He said Olsen had a "bad list" of serious convictions, including drug offences, assault, threatening to kill, carrying a firearm, trespass and shoplifting.
"You are a young man who is simply unable to grasp the realities of life. You don't do anything you are told," Judge Ingram said.
"Nothing other than a prison sentence will be appropriate."
Two of the protection order breaches had been committed while Olsen was on bail.
He had since been on remand in Waikeria Prison for a month awaiting sentence. "Being there with the big boys has taught him a thing or two," said lawyer Craig Tuck.
Olsen had had time to reflect and realised he should not have been behaving the way he had.
Mr Tuck said the teenager now claimed he would comply with court orders.
"He tells me he has grown up a lot. He does seem remorseful."
Judge Ingram was unconvinced.
"I regret to say I am not persuaded. He is going inside."
Olsen had turned up at his mother's home about 2.30am on November 14 last year and continually yelled abuse at her. He was furious when she telephoned the police.
Police said he grabbed pillows off the couch and threw them around the room, then stood close to his mother shouting and trying to intimidate her.
Despite the protection order in force, he rang her mobile phone on January 9, leaving a voice message threatening to burn down her house with her inside if he had to return to prison for any reason.
The following evening he was waiting on her property when she arrived home and asked for a ride to Papamoa.
His mother refused, walked straight into the house and locked the doors.
Olsen remained outside until she called the police.
He admitted he knew he was not welcome but "only wanted a ride".
- NZPA
