A son who avoided jail after stabbing his mum in the back is now behind bars after he breached an order by visiting her home.
Ryan Turnbull was given a suspended sentence in March 2017 for knifing the pensioner inside her Annitsford house, causing her to suffer a collapsed lung and need a chest drain and stitches. The 28-year-old was also made subject of an indefinite restraining order, which banned him from pestering his mother or attending her address.
However, on New Year's Day, Turnbull flouted the order for the fourth time since it was imposed by turning up in a taxi at her home and asking her to pay for it, a court heard. When neither had the funds for the fare, the cabbie called the police and Turnbull was found at the address and arrested.
