A serial offender escaped jail on Monday, June 14, but was slapped with an antisocial behaviour order (Asbo) after magistrates decided custody was not working to change his ways.

Jason Sanderson, 32, from Somerfield Road, Finsbury Park, was at Kingston Magistrates’ Court for a total of nine offences, to which he pleaded guilty at a previous hearing.

Among the offences were charges for drunk and disorderly, theft, assault, harassment and threatening behaviour across Kingston, Surbiton, Walton, Sunbury and Hampton Wick.

The court heard that on one occasion, Sanderson was caught trespassing in the owners’ and trainers’ bar at Kempton Park racecourse, where he stole a bottle of wine.

When approached, he said: “I’ve only nicked one bottle.”

But he was found with two on him, one of which was traced back to a petrol station in Sunbury.

On another occasion, he was found slumped on a pavement in Sunbury Cross and paramedics were called, along with his mother.

When he got in her car, he began to violently punch the windscreen and was arrested when he tried to leave the car, the court heard.

Sanderson was also guilty breaching a restraining order by harassing his ex-partner with texts.

One read: “See what happens now I’m going round to hurt your mother.”

Lead magistrate Mr Marshall said: “It goes without saying that we are appalled by your previous record and the nature of all the offences we’ve heard about in court today. We see little point and little hope in imposing another custodial sentence.”

Instead, Sanderson was handed a two-year Asbo, preventing him from drinking or having an open container of alcohol in a public place.

The court also handed him a restraining order, banning him from contacting his former partner, and alcohol and drug treatment orders for a period of six months.