A BLACKBURN man who featured on Crimewatch has admitted injuring his ex-girlfriend’s throat with a craft knife.

Martin Lacey, 37, was remanded in custody to await sentence as the judge said he wanted to know whether the defendent should be regarded as a dangerous offender.

Lacey, of Abraham Street, Infirmary, Blackburn, had been due to face trial accused of wounding Wendy Lynch with intent to do her grevious bodily harm on November 2, 2007.

But the prosecution accepted his guilty plea to the lesser charge of unlawful wounding.

Lacey also pleaded guilty to other offences including intimidation and criminal damage.

He admitted making a threatening phone call to her on November 28, 2007, damaging her car windscreen on April 23, 2008, and threatening to damage windows at her home in Black-burn on November 6 last year.

Andrew Long, prosecuting, told the court the defendant's pleas had been carefully considered and were acceptable to the Crown.

“He accepts that at the time, armed with a Stanley knife, he reached round to her in the course of a car journey, threatened her with the knife by holding it to her throat and in a struggle injuries were caused.”

She has now made a full physical recovery, but is still traumatised by the incident, according to police.

Several other charges denied by Lacey will lie on the file.

Defence barrister Hugh McKee said the defendant had often legitimately carried a knife because of his work.

He told Preston Crown Court: “Yesterday he was served with an injunctiion in relation to Wendy Lynch, from the county court.

“Access to a child was a problem at the time and still is a problem. I would ask for the case to be adjourned so that a pre-sentence report can be made. There is a somewhat complex domestic situation here that the court needs to know more about and how it is going to be resolved in the future.”

He was remanded in custody for sentencing in February.

Last year Lacey was featured on the BBC1 Crimewatch’s ‘most wanted gallery’.