A PENRITH man once jailed for rape is back behind bars after he illegally installed and then deleted a dating app on a digital device.

Glen Threlkeld, 26, who is also known as Glen Adrian, admitted breaching a court order that banned such online activity shortly being released from a ten week jail term for stalking a woman and leaving her terrified.

At Carlisle’s Rickergate court, he pleaded guilty to flouting a sexual harm prevention order handed to him in 2014 when he was jailed for the rape.

The court heard that police discovered that the defendant had deleted his internet history and uninstalled the Tinder dating app – actions which are prohibited under the court order.

Addressing the defendant, whose address was given as Skiddaw View, Penrith, presiding magistrate Sarah Bradbury told him that the case would be sent to Carlisle Crown Court for sentence. “We believe that this was deliberate and that you pose a risk of very serious harm," said the magistrate.

"The reason we have reached that conclusion is your previous breaches of this order, which as you know is open ended.

“You recently served a custodial sentence for stalking and we’re very concerned about the deceitful nature of this activity so soon after you were released from prison.

“You have deliberately tried to hide what you have been doing and that hasn’t come several months after you were released from jail; it has been immediate and that causes us serious concern.”

She added that the magistrates felt their powers to deal with the offence were not sufficient. The court heard that Threlkeld has now been recalled to prison to serve the remainder of the sentence he was on licence for.

Magistrates requested a pre-sentence report to aid the judge who passes sentence at Carlisle Crown Court. They set the sentencing date for that hearing as February 21.

Last month, the same court was told that Threlkeld, or Adrian as he was then named on court documents, stalked his on-off partner during many weeks of so-called “love-bombing” which left her feeling terrified.

The woman, who worked as an escort, attempted to put distance herself and the defendant but he bombarded her with messages and turned up at her home unannounced.

On one occasion, he went to her address saying he wanted to see her and warned that he was “going to kick off”. In an impact statement, the woman said a number of medical conditions had been “made significantly worse” by his offending.

She was “frightened” of him returning to her home and “terrified” to answer the door. District Judge John Temperley jailed Adrian for 10 weeks. The district judge accepted that the defendant’s background included mental health issues which “probably impacted on your behaviour”.