SENTENCING has been delayed once again in the case of a Powys man who breached a restraining order by arranging for a fridge freezer to be delivered to a woman's home.
Benjamin Sergeant, 53, was due to be sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Friday, March 21, but was told access to his “complicated” psychiatric history was still not available and would need to be considered before he can be sentenced.
Sergeant, of Wyeside Gardens, Hay-on-Wye, pleaded guilty on January 4 to one count of harassment when he appeared before Cardiff magistrates.
A day before that hearing he had arranged for a fridge freezer to be delivered to the home address of a woman who he was prohibited from contacting by a restraining order.
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The court heard that he has breached the restraining order twice in the short time since it was imposed, at the end of last year.
Sergeant was said to have a “history of hallucinations” and his mental health had deteriorated further recently following a diagnosis of diabetes.
Judge Lucy Crowther told him on Friday: “We need to make sure we have all the medical evidence in your case.
“This will take a bit of time as notes have not yet come from your GP, a medical examiner then needs to see them and then probation too.”
She further remanded Sergeant into custody and told him he would be sentenced at Merthyr on April 18.
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