A WINSFORD man is set to be sentenced after he admitted engaging in a two-year campaign of coercion and control against an intimate partner.

Jack McElligott, of Elmwood Road, Winsford, had pleaded guilty to the offence at Warrington Magistrates Court on Tuesday, August 1.

The charge relates to incidents between December 2020 and December 2022, when the 21-year-old humiliated his victim and kept her isolated, threatened to hurt or kill her and her manager, caused damage to her personal property, and threatened to harm a family pet.

At the same hearing, he pleaded not guilty to one count of assault by beating, and one of criminal damage. 

At a hearing at Chester Crown Court on Tuesday, August 29, prosecuting counsel, Paulinus Barnes, told Judge Simon Berkson the Crown Prosecution Service were 'discontinuing' the assault and criminal damage charges. 

He explained they formed part of the coercive behaviour charge to which McElligott had already pleaded guilty, and could be dealt with by way of that sentence.

Judge Berkson agreed, adding: “There is no public interest in proceeding with the remaining charges in the crown court.”

McElligott was bailed pending a pre-sentence report from the Probation Service.

He will be sentenced on Friday, October 6.