A MAN jailed for breaching a suspended sentence was told: “You have nobody and nothing to blame but yourself.”

Alexander Humphreys, 33, was locked up yesterday almost a year after receiving his initial punishment at Carlisle Crown Court.

Humphreys had admitted doing an act tending or intended to pervert the course of public justice, following an incident in Cleator last January when he was suspected of drink-driving.

“While talking to police, he gave the details of his brother,” Kim Whittlestone, prosecuting, told Carlisle Crown Court.

At a police station, Humphreys was found to be over the legal drink-drive limit. When signing documentation he again gave his brother’s details before being released. But he was rumbled after a suspicious officer began making enquiries.

Humphreys, of Ehen Road, Egremont, had a four-month prison sentence for that offence suspended for a year. He completed a night-time curfew, and initially did “extremely well” by tackling 11 of 20 rehabilitation requirement days.

But Humphreys then moved to Scotland after which, said Miss Whittlestone, “all contact between the defendant and the probation service was lost”.

“His probation officer has been spoken to and indicates they can offer nothing by way of a non-custodial sentence, and would ask the court to revoke the order and impose at least part of the suspended sentence order,” Miss Whittlestone stated.

Mark Shepherd, defending, spoke of initial confusion over contact details after Humphreys moved, but conceded: “What is clear is that he is realistic about what is likely to happen.”

Jailing Humphreys for two months, Judge Nicholas Barker said: “You have nobody and nothing to blame but yourself for your own stupidity.”