A couple’s day trip to Henley turned into an ordeal when the police stopped the bus taking them home and nicked the boyfriend.

Leslie Williams should not have been with his partner, having been handed a restraining order last year after he was convicted of assaulting her.

Since it was imposed, 40-year-old Williams has been in court for breaching the order. His partner, who still wishes to be in a relationship with him, has failed to convince a district judge to lift the order.

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On Friday (October 13), Oxford Crown Court heard that the defendant had gone to Henley for a trip on the river on September 9 at his partner’s invitation.

But they had argued, firstly at a bus stop then on the bus taking them back towards Nettlebed.

He was near his partner when police officers stopped the bus. Initially, she claimed to have had no communication with him, before later accepting they had been together.

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From the witness box, the woman said she had not felt any distress or harm as a result of their argument.

“I said to Les I had a restraining order and, basically,  to remove himself away from me,” she said.

Eiran Reilly, for Williams asked: “And did he?” He did, she replied.

Williams, of East Hanney, Wantage, pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order. He had failed to attend court for a hearing earlier in the week as he was ‘scared he was going to get locked up’, his advocate said.

The judge, Recorder John Bate-Williams, imposed a 12 month alcohol treatment requirement and ordered he pay £100 in prosecution costs.