Naomi Peate flouted a restraining order banning her from contacting her mum
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A pest banned from speaking to her own mother has been locked up after turning up outside of her home to demand cash.
Naomi Peate was told to stay away from mum Serena Peate for five years but ignored a court order prohibiting any contact.
The 36-year-old banged on her mum’s front door, leaving the victim so scared she locked herself inside her bedroom until police arrived.
Just six weeks later, she cashed in her mum’s mobile phone for money just so she could buy cigarettes.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how Peate was made subject to a five-year restraining order prohibiting her from contacting Serena or going to her home from January 2024.
But she flouted the order during the early morning of February 19, 2025.
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Her mum heard a loud bang on the front door before Peate started to ‘yell’ from outside her home in Sutton Road, Walsall.
Peate asked “can I have some money” before claiming she was ‘freezing cold and had pneumonia’, prosecutor Eoin Campbell said.
Her mum ignored her for five to 10 minutes before getting out of bed and telling her daughter she did not have any cash.
She called police and ‘locked herself’ in the bedroom, intending to stay there until they arrived.
Peate kicked the front door but it then ‘went quiet’, with her mum ending her call with police.
But ‘banging and shouting resumed’ so she called police a second time, Mr Campbell said.
Officers arrived and arrested Peate, taking her to Bloxwich police station.
During her interview with an officer, the defendant appeared ‘agitated’.
She ‘slammed’ her hands on the table, declaring she had ‘had enough and wanted to go home’.
The convict then ‘launched herself’ across the table, taking the officer’s notebook and throwing it at her.
Peate moved towards the officer, with another member of staff quickly coming into the room and taking the defendant back to her cell.
A month later, Peate was ‘intoxicated’ when she turned up at her mum’s home a second time on March 30.
She asked for food, which her mum gave to her.
Her mum ‘leaned forward’ to put drinks into her daughter’s bag, with her mobile ‘falling’ into it.
The next day, Peate confirmed she had her mum’s phone and said she would ‘give it back soon’.
On April 2, she returned to her mum’s home ‘intoxicated’ and asked for food once again.
She then confessed she had traded it in at Cash Generator, in Walsall, saying: “What else was I supposed to do, I had no money.”
Her mum contacted police and Peate was arrested, Mr Campbell said.
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Holly Sims, defending, said Peate traded in her mum’s mobile to buy cigarettes.
The barrister said: “She was having what she described as an episode. She suffers from schizophrenia.”
Serena was looking after her daughter’s anti psychotic medication at the time as she ‘cannot be trusted on her own with it’ and could ‘overdose’.
Peate has had a ‘sad and difficult’ relationship with her parents, moving out of her family home at a young age and ‘spiralling’ into drug use.
Ms Sims said: “She says that she was told they are not her biological parents when she was 18.”
The convict has since been told this is not the case but she is ‘not entirely of the position’, Ms Sims added.
Peate is aware she should not contact her mum due to the restraining order, the court was told.
The defendant has 10 convictions for 27 offences including ‘numerous’ breaches of non-molestation and restraining orders.
Judge Simon Ward said Peate had ‘quite a late start’, adding: “It looks like everything has gone completely wrong since 2020.”
Sentencing, he said: “I genuinely hope that you break out of this pattern of offending.
“Your behaviour is impacted by your long-standing mental health issues.”
Discussing when she traded in her mum’s phone, Judge Ward told Peate: “I think that is just nasty.
“I know why you did it, but it’s just nasty.”
Peate admitted three counts of harassment – breach of a restraining order, one count of common assault of an emergency worker and one count of fraud by false representation.
The defendant, of Bescot Road, Walsall, was jailed for 48 weeks on Thursday, August 7.
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