A JUDGE has given a Flintshire woman one more chance to stay out of prison after she admitted breaching a court order.

Georgina Fulton, of Second Avenue in Flint, appeared at Mold Crown Court on Tuesday morning.

The 23-year-old admitted that she breached the conditions of a suspended sentence order by failing to attend an appointment with probation officers in Flint.

Paulinus Barnes, prosecuting, told the court that the prison sentence of six months was imposed and suspended for 12 months at Liverpool Crown Court in August last year for an offence of causing affray.

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Fulton was handed 100 hours of unpaid work as part of the order, as well as 10 days of rehabilitation activity.

As part of her induction, she was warned about the consequences of missing appointments.

Despite the warning, she received a warning in January and then a final warning in May - with the probation service offering her a total of 49 appointments and her complying with 34.

Only five of the absences were authorised.

Following a missed appointment on June 19, for which she received a text reminder on the morning itself, she was found to have breached the order.

Of the 100 hours of unpaid work, Fulton has 46 remaining.

Myles Wilson, defending, told the court: "She accepts it's her responsibility to attend on the days she must attend.

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"She normally got the [reminder] texts the night before, but she didn't get one on this occasion.

"When it was sent on the morning, it was sent to an old number.

"The instructions I have are that the probation officer must have sent it to that old number, but she (Fulton) knows that's not good enough and she knows she could be sent to prison today."

Judge Niclas Parry told Fulton: "I can see you're distressed but that is what happens if you don't comply with the chance you're given - you go down.

The Leader:

"I am going to try again to keep you out of prison for the sake of your children.

"If you were back here again, I'd have to send you down. Don't mess up."

Judge Parry added an extra two months to the operational period of the order and imposed an additional 20 hours of unpaid work by way of punishment for the breach.