A WOMAN who posted threats against a man on social media is due to be sentenced.

Sandra Evelyn Marie Moorby admitted that she tweeted several threats on Twitter over the course of a month to Barry Fitzgerald.

The 41-year-old defendant, of Kirkhead in Grange, committed the offence between September 29 and October 29.

At South Cumbria Magistrates' Court Moorby pleaded guilty to harassing the man and is due to be sentenced December 30 at the same court.