A TEENAGER from Barrow has been locked up for nine weeks after changing his pleas to guilty to assault, criminal damage and resisting arrest.

Calvin Derek Phillip Upjohn appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court on Monday where he was due to stand trial.

The 18-year-old had been charged with resisting a police officer in the execution of his duty, two counts of assault, and one count of criminal damage.

The court heard Upjohn, of Steamer Street on Barrow Island, had changed his pleas to guilty.

He was represented in court by Trystan Roberts from Barrow law firm Poole Townsend.

The court heard that Upjohn had assaulted Courtney Corral by beating her in Barrow between March 31 and May 1 of last year. He then assaulted the same victim, again in Barrow, on July 8.

On December 28 Upjohn caused criminal damage to a door panel belonging to Chloe Cleasby and resisted PC Chiltern in the execution of his duty.

The Crown Prosecution Service dropped two counts of assault - against each of the two female victims, by offering no evidence.

The chair of the magistrates bench, Christopher Harris, described Upjohn as having a 'significant history of previous offences'.

Mr Harris said the offences were so serious because they were 'aggravated by being committed whilst subject to a community sentence and whilst on bail'.

Magistrates also highlighted the 'nature and seriousness of the offences' which represented a 'series of assaults, including a threat made with a knife, towards a vulnerable victim and whilst subject to a court order'.

Mr Harris said Upjohn had a 'significant history of previous offences of violence and the offending was aggravated by his criminal record'.

Upjohn was committed to detention in a Young Offender Institution for a total of nine weeks.

He was also given a 12-month restraining order preventing him from contacting Miss Corral or entering the front or rear of Parry Street.