A HEREFORDSHIRE man has been up before the magistrates after sending menacing messages to another person.

David Furnell entered a guilty plea to one count of sending an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message or matter by public communication network when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford.

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The court heard from prosecutor Camila Toscano that the 55-year-old, who was represented at the hearing by defence solicitor Chris Read, had sent messages that were of an indecent, obscene or menacing character in Lea, near Ross-on-Wye, between January 28 and February 9, an offence under the Communications Act 2003.

The messages were said to have been sent by means of a public electronic communications network, and had been sent by Furnell, of Old Market Close, Ross-on-Wye.

Magistrates in Hereford remanded Furnell on unconditional bail ahead of his sentencing on September 10. A pre-sentence report was ordered to be prepared by the probation service ahead of Furnell’s next hearing at Hereford Magistrates’ Court next month.