Man led police onto York to Knaresborough railway in chase

Adrian Thomas Fayter, 29, was fleeing officers because he had been spotted at an address from which he was banned by a crown court order, said Martin Butterworth.

The restraining order had been made just a month before police got a tip-off that he was at the forbidden house in Knaresborough.

Officers went to the front door and Fayter fled out the back.

“He runs off through a housing estate and onto a nearby train line.  He ran down the embankment from there,” said Mr Butterworth.

Sean Wilson, defending, said Fayter had done a complete circle, first going under the railway line and then back over the line before police arrested him.

The railway bridge on the York to Knaresborough line used by Adrian Fayter during the chase. (Image: Google Street View)

Fayter, of no fixed address, who has lived in York and at a previous hearing had given an address in Sherburn-in-Elmet as a contact point, pleaded guilty to breach of a restraining order.

Magistrates gave him a 10-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months on condition he does 10 days’ rehabilitative activities and ordered him to pay a £154 statutory surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.  He has a long history of previous convictions.

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Mr Butterworth said the restraining order was made at York Crown Court on April 23, and prevents Fayter from contacting a woman or attending at her home address for five years.  She had not made a police statement about the incident on May 25.

Mr Wilson said Fayter had been invited to the address by the woman.

Magistrates told Fayter he knew he was not allowed to go to the address and knew he was forbidden to contact her in any way.

Mr Wilson said Fayter had had a difficult childhood, suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and had a borderline personality disorder.  He also had physical health problems related to a motorcycle crash when he was 13 and an overdose two years ago.

“He realises he needs help,” he said.