[A] MAN has admitted further criminal conduct involving his ex-wife.
Peter Thomas Drinkwater, 45, was handed a suspended prison sentence at Carlisle Crown Court earlier this year.
He had previously been made subject to a restraining order which banned him from having any contact with his former wife, Deborah Wilkinson. But on three separate dates he flouted that order; his criminal conduct included delivering her both a birthday card and a Valentine’s Day package.
However, Drinkwater – a man with a 24-year Armed Forces career behind him – was brought back to the crown court this week. And during a hearing before Judge James Adkin, he admitted pursuing a course of conduct, on May 7, which amounted to the harassment of Ms Wilkinson.
This involved “repeatedly contacting” a third party to obtain details of her location.
Judge Adkin adjourned the case, remanded Drinkwater, of Bowness Court, Workington, in custody and announced that sentence for the later offence would be passed later this week.
For breaching the suspended jail term, the judge told him: “The inevitability is that in due course you are going to be made subject to a custodial sentence.”
