A judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of a Kingsteignton man who broke a suspended sentence by being drunk in public.
Martin Fox-Cooper failed to appear at Exeter Crown Court where he was at risk of having an eight month suspended sentence activated.
He is a mental patient who has a long history of committing minor offences either when drunk or while trying to access emergency treatment for his personality disorder.
The suspended sentence was passed by Judge David Evans last month after Fox-Cooper set light to a waste bin and ranted abuse at 999 call handlers.
He was due to be sentenced again for an offence of being drunk and disorderly, which he has already admitted at Newton Abbot magistrates court.
Fox-Cooper, aged 45, of Longford Lane, Kingsteignton, could now be resentenced for the earlier offences of arson and making using public communications to cause annoyance.
At the previous hearing Judge Evans told him: ’You have mental health difficulties but your personality disorder is aggravated by your voluntary use of alcohol. If you reoffend while under this order, the overwhelming likelihood is that I will activate the sentence.’