A WOMAN has admitted making fraudulent sales on ebay to unsuspecting buyers who never received the goods for which she was paid.

Sarah Jane Rowley pleaded guilty to five counts of making false representation to individual buyers who paid for items she posted online for auction, between June and October last year.

The goods they were expecting to receive included smart phones, two sets of Lego building bricks, Disney, Skylander and Lego figures, and a drone.

Durham Crown Court heard they paid sums of between £50 and £350, totalling £930, but none of the goods was forthcoming.

Jane Waugh, in mitigation, said Rowley suffers a dissociative personality disorder, which, while knowing what she was doing was wrong, rendered her unable to recall committing the offences.

An earlier medical report stated that she was fit to stand trial, however.

Miss Waugh asked for an additional psychiatric report on the defendant, prior to sentence, in the hope she could seek a community order, with a recommendation for a mental health treatment order.

Recorder Ian Atherton agreed and bailed the 38-year-old defendant, of Watson Park, Spennymoor, to allow her to assist in the preparation of the psychiatric up-date.

He added: “I can’t say what the sentence will be, at this stage, but I anticipate the judge will be guided by what the report states.”

She will be sentenced at the court on September 11.