A convicted man who fled from court after being jailed is to go back before a judge.
Damon Jefferies appeared before magistrates in handcuffs today (June 14, 2019) after being arrested yesterday.
The 32-year-old, of Bedminster Down, had been on the run since fleeing from Bristol Crown Court on June 12.
On that day Judge Euan Ambrose handed him a six months jail term.
But Jefferies leapt from the dock of Court Nine - hotly pursued by court staff - and managed to flee the building in Small Street.
Magistrates sent his case to the crown court on July 17.
Carla Bridgman, 28, of John Caller Crescent in Stoke Gifford, has been charged with perverting the course of justice by allegedly assisting Jefferies to evade justice at her home on June 13.
Magistrates sent her case to the crown court on July 12.
Jefferies was originally at the crown court for breaching the terms of a suspended prison sentence.
In February 2018 he was handed a 12 months jail term, suspended for two years, after admitting controlling behaviour in a relationship.
As part of his suspended sentence a judge imposed 150 hours' unpaid work, a rehabilitation requirement and a Building Better Relationships course.
Having failed to comply with the order on three occasions, in January this year a judge handed him an additional seven hours' unpaid work.
But Judge Ambrose was told Jefferies failed to attend unpaid work on multiple occasions and was still yet to begin his Building Better Relationships Course or rehabilitation.
