‘Stalker Callum Blake-O’Brien created numerous fake social media accounts to send women what prosecutors described as “unimaginably horrendous” messages. One teenager left “emotionally numb” by his unrelenting abuse says he “handpicked” his victims to cause maximum distress.’
BBC News, 9th March 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Stalking laws are being used to prevent people discovering if their partners are cheating on them, a jilted husband has claimed.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th February 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A warehouse worker who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death after she ended their relationship had been reported to the police four years earlier for stalking a previous partner, it can be revealed.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th February 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A “calculating and cruel” husband who stalked his own wife for two years has been jailed.’
BBC News, 24th January 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Conviction thought to be the first of its kind as prosecutors did not have to prove harassment happened on multiple occasions.’
The Independent, 10th January 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A woman has been handed a four-month suspended jail sentence after admitting stalking actor Eddie Redmayne.’
BBC News, 14th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.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 man whose campaign of threats and harassment caused his former partner to kill herself has been jailed for manslaughter.’
The Guardian, 28th July 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘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
‘Victims of harassment and stalking are being left at risk because of failings by police and prosecutors in England and Wales, say two watchdogs.’
BBC News, 5th July 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
A woman who was stabbed by her stalker has dismissed a police apology as “meaningless”.
BBC News, 29th June 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The mother of a young woman murdered by an obsessive ex-boyfriend urged other victims of stalking to speak out and not suffer in silence as her daughter’s killer was jailed for life. Alice Ruggles, 24, who worked for the broadcaster Sky, was stabbed with a carving knife by LCpl Trimaan “Harry” Dhillon, 26, in an “act of utter barbarism” at her Gateshead flat in October.’
The Guardian, 26th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Stalking behaviour has been identified in nine in 10 murders studied by criminologists as part of research examining a link between the two crimes.’
The Guardian, 24th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who stalked and killed his former girlfriend after she rejected him has been found guilty of her murder.’
BBC News, 22nd March 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The maximum sentence for stalking available to courts in England and Wales is to rise from five years to 10.’
BBC News, 6th January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The government is stepping up efforts to protect victims of stalking by introducing a new protection order – but has told prosecutors that this should not deter them from prosecuting wherever possible.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 7th December 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Home Secretary has announced her intention to introduce new stalking protection orders which will help protect victims at the earliest possible stage.’
Home Office, 7th December 2016
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘Home Secretary Amber Rudd has unveiled new “stalking protection orders” in a bid to clamp down on perpetrators who obsessively follow and torment their victims.’
The Independent, 7th December 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The attorney general has reaffirmed the government’s plans to extend the scheme for reviewing ‘unduly lenient’ sentences, with stalking one of the crimes that could be considered in any extension.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th October 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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