A MAN who was jailed for “terrorising” elderly caravan park residents is back behind bars after breaching his prison release licence.

Marc Smith, 38, was jailed for eight months at the end of March after harassing elderly residents at Monmouth’s Riverside Park, but was released just four weeks later on April 28.

He was rearrested and returned to prison last Friday, May 5, after a police appeal to track him down.

Newport Crown Court heard in March that he had terrified pensioners by lighting fires around the Wyeside retirement park, and had verbally threatened them.

He had also chased children through Chippenham playing fields and the town centre, making threats and throwing stones and sticks.

Smith was banned for five years last October from Hadnock Road Industrial Estate, where he had been sleeping in a derelict factory, the caravan park and Chippenham, and was jailed for 56 days for breaching anti-social restraining orders.

Newport magistrates had heard that police and the fire service had received multiple calls complaining about his behaviour over a three-month period.

But Smith breached his Criminal Behaviour Order on three separate occasions in November and was back in court again in March, where a judge heard that he had continued to terrorise elderly residents. 

Monmouth-based officer PC Chris Butt said at the time of his sentence: “He is generally anti-social in his nature and displays himself as an aggressive and argumentative individual.”

Police did not say what the breaches of his prison licence entailed.