An offender who vanished off the radar of support services for six months against the orders of a court has been jailed for two weeks. Paul Mason, 31, of Featherstone Street, Roker, Sunderland, failed to re-engage with the Probation Service after his last appointment with its team in October. He was obliged to cooperate as part of post-sentence supervision, imposed in 2022 after he was convicted of assaulting an emergency worker and committing a separate assault. Magistrates in South Tyneside... Read this story
