A West Cumbrian 19-year-old has admitted repeatedly assaulting his former partner and engaging in controlling conduct, including installing a tracking app on her phone.
Sol Wedgewood-Paterson faced five charges when he appeared at Carlisle Crown Court this morning.
Wedgewood-Paterson pleaded not guilty to allegedly causing a woman grievous bodily harm with intent to do so, but instead admitted a lesser alternative offence of unintentional grievous bodily harm. The court heard the female had suffered facial injuries, including un-displaced fractures during that incident on July 30 2022.
He admitted four other crimes.
One involved using controlling or coercive behaviour towards the woman during a period of more than two years — between June 24 2020, and July 30 2022. The court heard it comprised several separate assaults, belittling the woman, calling her abusive names, installing a tracking app on her phone and threatening to assault members of her family.
Wedgewood-Paterson further admitted assaulting the complainant, causing her actual bodily harm, on August 14 2020; and also damaging her mobile phone and a window belonging to another woman, both on 30th July, 2022.
The case was adjourned by Judge Nicholas Barker for the preparation of a probation service pre-sentence report. The judge heard Wedgewood-Paterson’s legal team was also intending to instruct a psychologist to assess the defendant before he received his punishment.
Wedgewood-Paterson, of Grange Avenue, Flimby, is due to be sentenced at the crown court on March 1.
In the meantime he has been granted bail with conditions imposed which prohibit him both from contacting the complainant and also entering a defined geographical exclusion zone
