Jilted boyfriend Carl Hogan jailed for pushing his ex Rebecca Lee into a hot tub

A jilted boyfriend has been jailed for assault after he pushed his former partner into a hot tub and gave her a drenching during a drunken family row. 

Carl Hogan, 31, caused 30-year Rebecca Lee to trip and fall into the water after he invaded her back garden late at night and began arguing with her over their young son.

Miss Lee who had previously won a restraining order against Hogan was not hurt in the accident but she was said to be ’embarrassed at being soaking wet’.

Hogan, pictured, was handed a 20-week suspended jail term in February for earlier breaches of the restraining order taken out by Ms Lee

Hogan arrived late at night at Ms Lee’s home and demanded to see their son in breach of the restraining order

Hogan, an air conditioning engineer from St Helens, Merseyside had a history of hounding Miss Lee had flouted the restraining order nine times and earlier this year he was given a suspended sentence for pestering her again three times in just 13 days

She later told police: ‘I do not think that he would do anything to hurt me but I just want him to leave me alone. I thought that when I got the restraining order it would work, but clearly it won’t. He simply will not leave me alone.’

Hogan, an air conditioning engineer from St Helens, Merseyside had a history of hounding Miss Lee had flouted the restraining order nine times and earlier this year he was given a suspended sentence for pestering her again three times in just 13 days.

It emerged Miss Lee tripped and fell into the hot tub when she was trying to push her former partner away.

At Sefton magistrates court Hogan was locked up for a total of 46 weeks imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order, breaching the suspended sentence and common assault.

Amanda York, prosecuting said a two-year restraining order had been imposed upon Hogan in February this year. He was banned from contacting his ex from any method other than through a solicitor or social worker to arrange child contact. He was also handed a 20-week jail sentence in February which was suspended for 18 months. 

She added: ‘On July 30, just after midnight, the complainant was at the rear of her property. She was in the back garden where she had been drinking and socialising with a friend.’ 

At Sefton magistrates court Hogan was locked up for a total of 46 weeks imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order, breaching the suspended sentence and common assault

Sentencing District Judge James Hatton told Hogan: ‘Your record of convictions is appalling, especially for breaching court orders. Even without the suspended sentence, this set of offences would have crossed the custody threshold’

Ms Lee and a friend Chloe were in the garden when Hogan appeared asking ‘where is my boy?’ 

The court heard Ms Lee and her friend shouted at Hogan to leave. 

Ms York continued: ‘She pushed him toward the exit of the garden in order to get him to leave. He pushed her back and she tripped over a wire and fell into the hot tub.

‘Embarrassed at being soaking wet, she shouted louder for him to leave at which point he ran off.’

The court heard Hogan has a ‘lengthy record for assaults and breaches of restraining orders’. 

Patrick O’Hanlan defending said: ‘He should not have been at the address and he properly understands that. He was under the influence of alcohol. I is fair to say that he is driven in part by a desire to see his young son.’

Sentencing District Judge James Hatton told Hogan: ‘Your record of convictions is appalling, especially for breaching court orders. Even without the suspended sentence, this set of offences would have crossed the custody threshold.’