Witham man Michael Eagles, jailed after bullying his nan, assaulting his wife and kicking a dog. (From Braintree and Witham Times)

Witham man Michael Eagles, jailed after bullying his nan, assaulting his wife and kicking a dog.

4:00pm Wednesday 23rd December 2009

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A thug was jailed for harassing his own 69-year-old grandmother after she offered him a home.

Michael Eagles’ family said they have disowned him and his nan, Iris, even has a restraining order against him.

Last week a judge at Chelmsford Crown Court activated an eight month sentence, which was imposed on Eagles, 23, in June but suspended for two years.

That sentence was imposed on the bullying yob for putting Mrs Eagles in fear of violence, along with an offence of common assault on his wife, and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, a dog, by kicking it.

She said her life had been made a misery and she could not forgive her grandson.

“He’s had enough chances, he will never change and what he has done to me and my family I will never forget,” she said.

Eagles was jailed for a further two months, consecutive, for handling stolen goods - taking in a £3,500 raid on a building site at River View, Witham on September 18. He had admitted handling.

Mrs Eagles, of Bramston Green, Witham, said she allowed her grandson to stay with her when he came out of prison in June.

She thought he would be with her for a fortnight, as he waited for a council property, but “once he got his foot under the door he was here three months”.

Eagles asked for six offences of breaking into vehicles, interfering with them or driving them away, in August and September, to be taken into consideration.

Chelmsford Crown Court heard last Thursday that Eagles had also been convicted this year of assaulting his stepfather and further harassment of his grandmother, including damaging her motability scooter.

Judge Mr Justice David Calvert-Smith, called it "a campaign of harassment which lasted almost three months".

Mrs Eagles said her grandson, a father-of-two, once trashed her kitchen and put his fist through a wall in her home.

The court heard, Eagles controlled his nan, after she gave him a home, and forced her to buy him beer - she later told police she spent £800 on booze for him.

Mitigating, Steven Levy said when he was released Eagles was drinking excessively and had nowhere to live until his grandmother offered to have him.

"He accepts he abused that trust and drink took over his life," he said.

Mrs Eagles said her grandson often blamed his misdeeds on his grandfather dying, which happened nine years ago

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