A BUILTH Wells woman has been remanded in custody until Thursday, when she will be sentenced for a vandalism spree that resulted in almost £15,000 worth of damage being caused.

Katrina Duffin went on the warpath in Builth on February 22 this year, smashing windows at three shop premises in the town centre – which resulted in £8-9,000 of damage being caused.

The 35-year-old then threatened one of the victimised businessowners that she would cause further damage, if repairs were carried out, on April 15, while last Saturday, July 9, she caused more than £5,000 worth of damage by smashing windows of a BMW belonging to Benjamin Jones.

Duffin, of Parc-y-Castell, Builth, entered guilty pleas to all five charges she faced when they were put to her at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court on Monday, July 11.

The three February offences include destroying a door valued between £6-7,000 belonging to the Builth Food and Wine Store; destroying a window and sign worth £1,628 belonging to Eazy Cutz and causing £500 of damage to a window at Kebab 2000.

On April 15, Duffin admitted threatening Nitan Patel, telling him “If you fix it I’ll smash it again, until you go away from here” in relation to a window belonging to him. The July 9 incident involved her destroying the front driver and passenger windows of a blue BMW valued at over £5,000 belonging to Mr Jones.

Duffin was remanded in custody by magistrates until July 14 for a pre-sentence report to be carried out, when she will be sentenced at Merthyr. They refused bail as they feared she would be likely to re-offend and due to the nature and seriousness of the offences.