A woman banned from contacting her mother after trying to stab her in the chest has been jailed after sending menacing messages to her.

Candi-Rose Hall, from Medway, sent a series of chilling messages threatening her mum by saying, “I’ll burn you,” with another stating ‘“I hope you die.”

The 34-year-old had previously been banned from contacting her mother by way of a restraining order issued by the courts after an incident last year

Hall was suffering from a mental health breakdown at the time and her mother had to wrestle the knife out of her daughter’s hands.

She was later charged with threatening to harm her mother with a weapon and issued a 12-month restraining order not to contact or go near her mum’s address in Rochester after admitting the charges last April.

However, Hall, of Trinity Road, Gillingham, was charged with harassment by breach of a restraining order after she messaged her mum several times on January 12 while she was high on cannabis.

She admitted the offence when she appeared before magistrates in Medway on January 15.

Terry Knox, prosecuting, said Hall had a number of previous convictions for violence and criminal damage and failing to comply with community orders.

He added: “[Hall] admitted she had intentions to kill her [mother] by stabbing her in the chest.

“So it’s no surprise there was a restraining order issued and she was given a community order with a mental health treatment requirement and 12 rehabilitation sessions.”

The court heard she breached her restraining order on at least seven occasions between April and November.

She was first told her rehab sessions would increase but on the next breach she was given a suspended sentence which was then activated in May after another breach over three consecutive days and she was jailed.

Hall was sent to prison on two more occasions for further breaches - in September for 16 weeks and in November for eight weeks.

Mr Knox added: “Hall started sending messages on January 12 and then kept sending separate messages within minutes of each other thereafter.”

“There was then a two-hour break but she sent others which also said sorry, and bye and that she was stoned and to call the police.

“Later that night at 8.32pm she sent one which said: ‘I’ll burn you,’ but she then sent a voice note saying: ‘sorry mum, I didn’t mean to’.

“But then later she sent another saying: ‘I hope you die’.”

The court also heard Hall’s mother had written a victim impact statement to say the contact had made her feel anxious and stressed and that she was constantly worried she would bump into her daughter when she was out.

The statement added: “I scan for her when I am walking down the street and I stay inside when at all possible.

“I am tired of this and the constant anxiety.

“She even contacted a friend to ask how I was and if she might come and see me.”

Mr Knox also told magistrates the current restraining order would run out on April 24 and as a result, he would be applying for another longer one to be issued.

He added: “It was deliberate [the breach] and serious and persistent, albeit, it was one incident over one day [and night].”

Wayne Crowhurst, defending, said there were no winners in this case as it was a mum and daughter situation, but said his client had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

He added: “It’s going to be a custodial sentence today, she’s got a personality disorder, but she was kind to me and the police.

“She does want a relationship with her mum in the future but she was using cannabis at the time, but one day she hopes they might be able to reconcile.”

Magistrates said they had no option but to send Hall to custody.

They jailed her for eight months for the breach and told her she would serve 40% of that term.

They also issued a new two-year restraining order which bans Hall from contacting her mother or going near her address.

She was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £187 which will need to be paid when she is released from the latest sentence.