‘A son has been jailed for bullying his mother and step-father in a rare use of a law that prevents controlling and coercive behaviour.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th January 2020
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A Brexiteer who is running against Anna Soubry in the general election has been convicted of harassing the Change UK leader. Amy Dalla Mura was banned from entering the Broxtowe constituency at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.’
The Independent, 20th November 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man who sent a threatening letter to the MP Anna Soubry telling her that she would be murdered like Jo Cox has been jailed.’
The Guardian, 15th November 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A woman who used social media to impersonate a toddler missing for almost 40 years has been handed a suspended jail term.’
BBC News, 30th October 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘When an obsessed fan’s adoration of beauty queen Samantha Bumford became physical, she alerted police and he was given a restraining order and sent to prison.’
BBC News, 30th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man has been cleared of a criminal offence over a video that showed a model of a building marked “Grenfell Tower” being burned, while a group of friends laughed and joked.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A carer with learning difficulties who had sex with a “vulnerable” client should not have been working in the care industry, a court heard.’
BBC News, 20th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A father has admitted stalking his daughter after trying to force her into a marriage and keep her from university.’
BBC News, 10th June 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who has been convicted of coercive control has been spared prison after a judge told him to leave his ex-girlfriend alone because there are “lots more fish in the sea”.’
The Independent, 8th May 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A “cowardly predator” who cyber-stalked a disabled campaigner against online abuse has been jailed.’
BBC News, 1st August 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An 82-year-old grandfather has been jailed for attacking his own son – in a bitter row over their rival flower businesses. Raymond Hill shoved his son Paul, 49, as he took a delivery of flowers and plants at his garden centre. The outburst breached an earlier restraining order given to Hill for harassing his son, who lives next door.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has issued a restraining order to stop a man in a long-running divorce case from contacting his former wife’s solicitor on her private email address.’
Legal Futures, 14th March 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A woman who posted a dead mouse to her ex-partner’s girlfriend has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence.’
BBC News, 21st August 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A convicted paedophile who stalked BBC Radio 2 DJ Sara Cox has been jailed.’
BBC News, 24th July 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A spurned pilot maliciously signed his former partner up to sadomasochistic dating sites, stalked her and hacked into her bridge club.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th July 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Police and court action, including the imposition of restraining orders, is failing to prevent domestic abusers and stalkers from carrying on their campaigns of harassment and abuse against their victims online, a unique survey of victims has revealed.’
The Guardian, 8th May 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who called an MP’s office and said she should be “Jo Cox’d” has been jailed for eight weeks.’
BBC News, 25th April 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A factory worker has been jailed for four months for posting on Facebook a “sinister and menacing” threat to stab a Conservative MP to death.’
The Guardian, 12th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘When businessman Andrew Nelson first met care home tycoon Yvonne Graham he could not have envisaged their relationship would come to resemble the plot of the Hollywood thriller Fatal Attraction.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A judge accused warring neighbours of having “handbags in the cul-de-sac” after an 81-year-old man attacked a man living next door with a rounders bat.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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