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An Uber driver called police after his customer tried to get him to help remove her ex-boyfriend from the home. Mark Morris was subject to a banning order at the time of the incident which

prevented him from contacting the woman. The call to police was made on Saturday, May 10 when the delivery driver was asked by the "frightened" and "distraught" woman to

help remove Morris from her home. The 45-year-old, of Slate Drive, Burbage, near Hinckley, had been subject to a non-molestation order since being dealt with for previous offences against

her. When the police arrived at the woman's house, in Saltash, Cornwall, the woman seemed "fearful and reluctant to engage with them" but the police officers heard a sound

from the bathroom and found Morris hiding. He was subsequently arrested. READ MORE: Uninsured drink-driver crashed into parked car after downing vodka At Leicester Magistrates' Court on

Monday (June 2), it was heard that Morris had already spent the three weeks in prison ahead of his court appearance. He appeared in court in the dock with a security guard after being

brought to court from HMP Leicester. Kerri Pattrick, representing Morris, said that his time behind bars counted as a more than an adequate punishment for Morris. She said her client was an

Armed Forces veteran and was looking for housing so that he could move out of his brother's house in Burbage due to his brother's own drinking problems. She said: "His brother

also suffers with his own alcohol difficulties and it wouldn't be helpful [for them to keep living together]." Regarding Morris's ex-partner, she said: "It was not a

healthy relationship for either of them. It's been toxic because they both have difficulties. He was in the house at her invitation. They are discovered because the Uber driver brings

alcohol and she asks for help to remove him. "This is a low-level breach. He has spent three weeks in custody already on a case that, in my opinion, doesn't cross the custody

threshold." The magistrates decided Morris should be released from prison to serve a community order. The chair of the bench, David Maguire, told Morris: "Three weeks in custody is

punishment enough for this breach. You could have been sent to prison for up to 12 weeks, so you're getting off lightly for this offence." Morris received a 12-month community

order with 10 days on programmes nominated by the Probation Service. He was also ordered to pay £85 court costs and a £114 victim surcharge.