A FORMER stalker found slumped in her car after downing vodka had been grieving the deaths of her daughter and husband.

Sarah Lewis admitted failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis after she was suspected of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle. The 51-year-old of Middleton Gardens, Warndon Villages, Worcester, was also in breach of a suspended sentence order when she appeared at Worcester Crown Court on Friday. We previously reported how Lewis cried rape after meeting married men for casual sex, driving some to the brink of suicide and helping destroy their marriages.

Lewis chatted to soldiers and a fireman online, meeting some for sex before harassing them and their wives, threatening to expose them to their spouses and employers.

Lewis also disclosed an intimate image of one of the men to his wife, falsely claimed one had given her a sexually transmitted disease and that she was pregnant.

She admitted five counts of harassment by stalking and one of disclosing private sexual photographs or ‘revenge porn’. Lewis was sentenced to 21 months in prison suspended for two years.

Speaking on Friday, Naomi Nelson-Cofie, prosecuting, said a woman noticed the defendant ‘slumped over the vehicle’ while it was parked at the side of the road on May 29 this year.

The incident happened at Sale Green, near Droitwich. The engine was not running but loud music was playing and the keys were in the ignition. The witness took the keys and flagged down a man who said police should be called.

Lewis was described as ‘hysterical, crying and telling them her daughter is dead, her husband is dead'.

When police arrived Lewis was said to be ‘slurring’ and to smell of alcohol. She blew 97mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath but failed to provide the necessary evidential reading back at the police station (she did blow one reading of 81mcg).

“The officer takes the view she isn’t trying to blow a proper reading” said Miss Nelson-Cofie.

Lewis had been drinking from a bottle of vodka.

Belida Ariss, defending, asked the judge if he could impose 10 penalty points instead of a driving ban.

Judge Jim Tindal said: “I can’t possibly imagine what the effect of the tragedy earlier this year was. What I can say is that, as a result of it, you relapsed and relapsed in the form of an offence which could have led to another tragedy.”

He sentenced her to a 12 month community order with 30 rehabilitation activity days. The judge also imposed 10 penalty points and ordered her to pay £100 costs and a victim surcharge (calculated administratively) within three months.

“When you do drive, your license is hanging by a thread” said Judge Tindal.