An offender who was convicted of nine offences including stalking, domestic violence and assaulting a police officer has been jailed.

Nathan Phillips, 32, was first arrested on May 1 for an incident of domestic violence after punching a woman in the face in Clacton. 

Later, while in custody, he assaulted a police officer. 

Phillips, of no fixed address, continued to contact his victim after being released on police bail.

He would text and call her, as well as post handwritten letters through her door and drive past her house.

On May 9, Phillips pursued an off-duty police officer who had been involved in his arrest. He verbally threatened him before hitting his drivers-side window with a hammer. 

When he had been arrested, he then assaulted another police officer. 

Phillips admitted a range of offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm, two counts of assaulting an emergency worker, stalking, making threats with an offensive weapon, theft, dangerous driving, criminal damage and failing to provide a sample. 

At Chelmsford Crown Court, he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, disqualified from driving for three years and made the subject of a ten-year restraining order.