Chey Garland, who runs the Garlands call centre at Hartlepool Marina as well as several other similar operations across Tees Valley, received death threats from her brother Kirk along with her sister, mother and stepfather.

Kirk Garland, 45, had threatened to kill her and her stepfather Hylton Bell the day after he was released from five months on remand for similar phone threats.

In February he was spared prison after he pleaded guilty to harassment but he was ordered to take an alcohol treatment course, and was banned from contacting Ms Garland and his family.

Then, judge Recorder Tony Kelbrick told him then that he faced up to five years in jail if he broke the ban.

Yesterday, Garland appeared at Teesside Crown Court and was remanded back to jail for pre-sentence reports before sentence in a fortnight.
Judge Peter Armstrong said: "It has got to the stage where his own family are despairing of his behaviour."

Garland of Thornton Street, North Ormesby, pleaded guilty when he was due to stand trial charged with making a threat to his stepsister Julie Dixon on February 23, of threat to kill Cheyenne Jo-Ann Garland and Hylton Bell his stepfather. And on the same date breaching a contact order made on September 10 last year by making the threats to kill.