A CRIMINAL who will remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely failed to tell police she had moved from Dalton.

Brogan Stacie Gillard, who now lives in Main Street, Flookburgh, was given a 31-month prison sentence in January 2017 for her role in a demeaning sexual assault on a young man in Barrow.

At South Cumbria Magistrates' Court yesterday the 29-year-old pleaded guilty to failing to notify police of a change of address in line with the terms of the sex offenders register.

Prosecutor Lee Dacre said: "This is a case which potentially is for committal to the crown court for sentencing.

"She was found at the Flookburgh address in November.

"When police spoke to her father at the Dalton address and he hadn't seen her since September.

"She received an indefinite order for a significant sexual offence.

"The home-owner whose house she was staying at has children."

The court also heard Gillard was subject to a suspended sentence.

She was given an eight-week custodial sentence, suspended for 12 months, in August 2019 after pleading guilty to assaulting a police officer in Barrow.

That incident involved Gillard slapping a police officer after she had been taken to Furness General Hospital following a car crash.

In court yesterday defence solicitor Karen Templeton said it had only been two or three weeks since she had moved to Flookburgh.

"Her father, who she was living with in Dalton, has alcohol problems and she historically has a problem with alcohol herself," she said.

"She had gone to visit her partner on October 19 and she had a row with her dad and didn't want to go back.

"She has been suffering from depression and feeling very low.

"She has been sectioned twice in the last year and on eight or nine occasions an ambulance has been called out after she self-harmed."

District Judge Gerald Chalk declined jurisdiction and sent the case to Preston Crown Court for sentencing on February 7.