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Sentencing: Preston Crown Court heard the case A man who was jailed for sending threatening messages to Barrow residents has abandoned his appeal against his conviction. Peter John Cunliffe, 50, was sentenced to 22 weeks in prison after sending offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing messages to three residents in Barrow in February. But Cunliffe did not accept the conviction and sentence and lodged an appeal. At Preston Crown Court, Judge Heather Lloyd said his decision to abandon the appeal was a sensible solution.’ She said: “I think the magistrates and I were quite surprised that the sentence was as low as it was. He may have had more to serve, had he continued with the appeal.”
by Charlie Spargo
A man has been jailed for nearly six months, and a two-year restraining order issued, after sending Facebook messages threatening the former chief reporter for Barrow s The Mail, Amy Fenton, according to the Press Gazette.
Fenton left her role in September 2020, after already needing police protection due “increasing levels of abuse, intimidation and threats”. It came after protests in Barrow surrounding an alleged grooming gang operating, and the subsequent police investigation that found “no evidence” to support this.
In June, when Fenton was still The Mail in Cumbria s chief reporter, she received death threats from Peter Cunliffe, 50, of Sandylands Promenade in Morecambe - among many others sent to her and other Mail staff who were reporting on the situation.
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Cunliffe pleaded guilty to six counts of sending by public communication (Facebook) an offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing message on Tuesday at Barrow-in-Furness Magistrates’ Court. The charges related to Fenton and two other victims.
He was given a total of 22 weeks in custody, ordered to pay three lots of £200 compensation, and issued with a two-year restraining order stopping him from contacting Fenton directly or indirectly and from using her name on social media.
Fenton tweeted: “The sentence and restraining order is welcome; glad it’s now been concluded.”
Leroy McCarthy, 25, of Osborne Road in Salford, was jailed for five months after admitting writing a threatening email of a sexual nature followed by three laughter emojis, under a Facebook post from the official Mail page correcting the name of a man convicted of rape in a previous report.