A woman has been warned by a judge that immediate imprisonment is the most likely punishment for an offence of blackmail which she committed earlier this year.
Thirty-year-old Mirella Kovacs admitted one offence involving a victim from the Carlisle area when she appeared at the city’s crown court this morning.
Kovacs pleaded guilty to blackmail, accepting that she made an unwarranted demand for money — said to run into the thousands of pounds — from a man, with menaces, in a bid to make a gain for herself or another; or with intent to cause loss to another.
Her offence occurred during a period of more than four months, between February 2 and June 10 this year.
Kovacs, of Farmeloan Road, Rutherglen, near Glasgow, had her case adjourned after Judge Richard Archer directed that a probation service pre-sentence report should be prepared. This will provide more information about the crime and the defendant’s background circumstances.
Kovacs is due to receive her punishment at the crown court on August 4.
“But you should not assume,” Judge Archer told her, “from the ordering of that report that the court will impose anything other than an immediate custodial sentence.
“That is the most likely sentence for an offence of this kind but the judge who sentences you will consider all options.”
Until August 4, Kovacs will remain remanded in custody.
