A WOMAN who claimed she had phone sex with a former soccer star and then tried to blackmail him is to undergo further psychiatric tests.

Carolyn Pick, 36, was convicted of blackmailing the former international after sending him sordid sex tapes and threatening to expose him to the world.

She was due to be sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday, but judge David Hodson adjourned the case for two months so that the former beauty queen could undergo further tests in a mental hospital.

Her psychiatrist Dr Stephen Barlow said he wanted extra material which had not been heard during the trial, in order to make a complete assessment of her mental state.

Mr Barlow said: "I understand there were certain diaries and note books containing lists that give an indication of Miss Pick's thinking at the time.

"This particularly, I thought might be of clinical significance."

Pick was convicted of blackmail in October, after claiming to have made a tape of her and the footballer having phone sex.

She had been cautioned by police in 1997 after the footballer became worried by her increasing obsession, which began when she sent a photograph of herself in a yellow bikini to the star in 1995.

Despite the caution, she launched another campaign in August last year, bombarding her victim with letters, and tapes of sex songs and bizarre threats.

Pick, from Washington, Wearside, was remanded in a psychiatric hospital for further tests, and will be sentenced in February