A Penrith woman who made offensive phone calls on two separate dates while subject to a suspended prison term has avoided being locked up.
Deborah Isabel Dixon, 44, had originally been sentenced last August for a string of assaults on emergency workers.
But Dixon was back in trouble for criminal conduct which occurred on two different days.
On February 26, she was told she couldn’t see her mother in a care home both due to the COVID pandemic and because her father didn’t want her to make the visit.
As a result, Dixon called the care home and made a threat that she would take her dad’s life, before contacting police.
She warned: “If he takes this away, it will be the last thing he takes from me. I would gladly go to jail.”
In May, she left abusive voicemail comments on the phone of a housing officer.
Dixon, of Carleton Road, later admitted two charges of making offensive public communications, and breaching the suspended sentence.
She was sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court yesterday, when Judge Nicholas Barker heard of her complex mental health issues but also that she had been both making good progress with rehabilitation, and engaging with drug and alcohol recovery service Unity.
As a result, Judge Barker opted not to activate the suspended jail term. Instead, he imposed a three-month drug rehabilitation order for the breach and, for the recent offences, a one-month jail term was suspended for six months.
