Man who attacked Harborough’s war memorial and assaulted police has been jailed for breaching his order

A man who attacked Market Harborough’s war memorial and assaulted police has been jailed after he flouted a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO).

Leigh Marlow, 35, was locked up for 10 weeks for breaching the CBO which banned him from almost all of Market Harborough.

The order was handed to Marlow by a judge on January 8 and lasts for five years.

Marlow, of no fixed address, was jailed at Leicester magistrates’ court on Saturday May 23.

The repeat offender was hauled into court after he was arrested by police 24 hours earlier in Market Harborough’s High Street.

The order bans Marlow, who was living in New Parks, Leicester, from entering the town unless visiting a specific address.

Marlow was also convicted of a further count of breaching a CBO and using threatening/abusive words/behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

That offence relates to a separate incident in February this year.

The CBO bans Marlow from:

- Entering any part of Market Harborough, unless he is visiting a person known to him at an address in Bowden Lane

- Causing harassment, alarm, distress, pestering or intimidating or speaking any offensive, lewd or obscene language to any female in a public place who is not previously known to him if he is told by any female to stop, desist or leave them alone or the reaction of the female suggested they did not want to engage or communicate he must not engage or communicate further

- Being drunk or consuming alcohol in any public place other than a licensed premises.

Today Sgt Pete Jelbert, based at Market Harborough police station, said: “Marlow had no regard for the order that was imposed on him earlier in the year and returned to Market Harborough despite being prohibited from doing so.

“However, local officers saw him and he was promptly arrested and charged.”

He added: “While we’re pleased Marlow has been given a custodial sentence, should he be seen in future I would ask the public to contact us.

“If you have any information please contact 101.”

Last October, Marlow admitted one count of assaulting an emergency worker after he attacked a police officer as they tried to arrest him in Market Harborough.

He also admitted before Leicester magistrates causing criminal damage after he attacked the totemic 6ft metal Tommy at the town’s War Memorial on The Square.

The attack sparked widespread fury in Market Harborough and was strongly condemned by the town’s outraged branch of the Royal British Legion.