A man cleared of plotting to kill his estranged Russian wife last month is due back in court on Friday for harassing his sister.
Steven Hellewell, 50, of Gorse Close, in Tadworth, appeared, via video link, at South East Surrey Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to plead guilty to one charge of harassment in breach of a restraining order.
The order was imposed on him by Judge Christopher Critchlow at Guildford Crown Court on July 9.
On July 9, Hellewell was found not guilty of soliciting to murder his wife Elena Hellewell, 48, also of Tadworth, but ordered not to contact a number of people, including sister Pamela Watts for ten years.
The magistrates’ court heard that, just a day later, he used a prison telephone to make four phone calls to Ms Watts.
Hellewell was remanded in custody at Highdown Prison, in Sutton, following the trial, where he is awaiting sentencing for two separate offences - for unlawfully having a mobile phone while on remand in prison and illegally using the device to transmit a message.
Moses Koroma, prosecuting, read a statement from Ms Watts to the magistrates’ court stating she did not want any contact with her brother because of the "mental and physical trauma" he caused her.
He said: "She is scared and distressed. She says Mr Hellewell is a bully and makes demands.
"She says ‘I’m in fear of what will happen to me."
Hellewell will be sentenced for the offence, together with the offences relating to use of a mobile phone, at Guildford Crown Court, on Friday.
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