THE sentencing of a Powys woman, who admitted going on a spree of vandalism in Builth Wells which resulted in nearly £15,000 of damage being caused, has been delayed again.

Katrina Duffin, 35, went on a spree of criminal damage on three separate occasions this year, in February, April and then July.

On February 22 she smashed windows at three shop premises on the high street, including an off-licence, takeaway shop and barbers. The amount of damage caused on that occasion resulted in £8-9,000 of damage being caused.

Duffin, of Parc-Y-Castell, Builth, then threatened one of the victimised businessowners, telling him she would cause further damage if repairs were carried out, on April 15, while on Saturday, July 9, she caused more than £5,000 worth of damage by smashing windows belonging to a BMW car.

She entered guilty pleas to five charges of criminal damage on July 11.

She has been remanded in custody ever since and had been due to be sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court today (August 22) but her case was put back to September 2 for a further pre-sentence report to be undertaken.

Duffin had originally been due to be sentenced on July 14, but the bench on that occasion instead ordered a psychiatric report to be prepared.

Magistrates refused bail as they feared she would be likely to re-offend, interfere with witnesses or otherwise obstruct the course of justice, as well as because of the nature and seriousness of the offences.

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 Benjamin Jones.