A SERIAL offender has been jailed for a second time in just over two weeks.

Shaun Scanlon, of no fixed address but from Warrington, was locked up for a week on Friday, October 22, after failing to attend appointments with the probation service following a previous term of imprisonment.

And the 45-year-old was handed another seven days behind bars at Warrington Magistrates Court on Monday, November 8, for the same offence.

Scanlon, who has been assessed as posing a ‘high risk of serious harm to the public’, admitted failing to comply with supervision requirements after skipping a probation session on Tuesday, November 2.

He was previously jailed for 16 months in February 2018 after threatening to stab a friend while brandishing two kitchen knives during a drunken argument.

In January 2020, just over a week after being released from a custodial term, the defendant smashed a window at the Firkin Tap pub on Buttermarket Street in the town centre – causing £2,000 of damage – and was caged for five weeks.

Scanlon was also imprisoned for 20 weeks in June last year after he was found carrying another knife in a public place.