Police arrested Michael Jackson (38) at Samantha Lee's home on Milton Street — but a judge criticised the police for taking 10 hours to get there.

Judge Jonathan Teare described the delay as 'lamentable' at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday.

"Someone should make an inquiry as to why it took the police 10 hours to respond," he said.

Jackson, of no fixed address, admitted a breach of a non-molestation order made at Mansfield County Court on 2nd July.

Prosecutor Paul Stimson told the court it was his fourth breach.

On the afternoon of 24th October, Jackson went and stood at Miss Lee's back door and was told he should not be there before police were called.

When it started raining, she took pity on him and invited him in and, as it got late, they went to bed in separate beds, said Mr Stimson.

Police had already been called again, but did not arrive until 11.15pm.

Jackson told them he did not agree with the court order, which he and his partner had tried to have lifted on 9th October.

He had been sentenced to 28 days' prison for an earlier breach. The order does not run out until next June.

Jackson, a bricklayer, electrician and former member of the RAF, had not been involved with the police before the order was made, said his barrister Nicola Hornby.

The judge told him: "You might not give a fig about the courts, but the courts give a fig about you. If an order is in place you have to abide to it."