Father admits stalking his daughter in Leicester – BBC News
‘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
Category: stalking
It felt like Fatal Attraction, says wife stalked by her hedge fund boss husband’s mistress – Daily Telegraph
‘It was the chilling 1987 blockbuster about a spurned lover who wreaks revenge on a married man by launching a terrifying stalking campaign against him and his family. But when the wife of a hedge fund manager discovered her husband was having an affair – and his jilted mistress began viciously harassing her online – she said it felt like she had walked onto the set of Fatal Attraction.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th May 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Police failed stalking victim who killed herself, watchdog finds – The Guardian
‘Police repeatedly failed a stalking victim who went on to kill herself, crushed by the weight of harassment she was suffering, a report has found.’
The Guardian, 29th April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
Disciplinary action for police officers over Shana Grice murder – The Guardian
‘Police officers are to face disciplinary charges over the case of a woman murdered after being stalked by her former partner, whose repeated pleas for help instead saw her fined for wasting police time.’
The Guardian, 9th April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
Revenge porn threats should be made illegal, review suggests, after Alice Ruggles murder – Daily Telegraph
‘Revenge porn threats should be made illegal after the murder of Alice Ruggles, a domestic homicide review has recommended.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th March 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Government backed Stalking Protection Bill receives Royal Assent – Home Office
‘A new civil order that will help protect victims of stalking has received Royal Assent today, and is included as part of the government’s wider commitments to tackle violence against women and girls.’
Home Office, 15th March 2019
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Summary: What offences may be committed if someone is shouted at or approached by another person in the street? – Crown Prosecution Service
‘This summary does not cover every eventuality but intends to outline some of the possible criminal offences that may be committed. It should not be treated as legal advice and is not meant to be an exhaustive account of this area of law.
The police are responsible for investigating an allegation that a crime has been committed. Following investigation, the decision whether to charge a person with a criminal offence lies either with the police or the CPS.
Where a series of existing offences – including harassment and public order offences – are committed, and such an offence was motivated by hostility to race or religion, or was accompanied by hostility to race or religion proximate to the commission of the offence, a separate racially or religious aggravated offence is committed attracting a greater penalty. For further details, see the CPS-published guidance on this website. For those offences not covered but where hostility or hostile motivation towards race or religion is present, or hostility or hostile motivation towards disability, sexual orientation or transgender is present, this must be treated as an aggravating factor at sentence and stated as such in open court.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 11th January 2018
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
Woman jailed for staging her own kidnap and harassing ex-boyfriend online – The Independent
‘A woman who orchestrated an online harassment campaign against her ex-boyfriend, before lying about being pregnant and even staging a fake kidnapping, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.’
The Independent, 12th December 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Detective sues own force claiming they ignored his domestic abuse allegations because he is a man – Daily Telegraph
‘A detective is suing his own police force claiming that it ignored allegations that he was a victim of domestic abuse because he is a man.’
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Love contract’ stalker Lina Tantash jailed – BBC News
‘A “vicious, manipulative” stalker who turned her ex’s life into a “living nightmare” after he broke a so-called love contract has been jailed for four years.’
BBC News, 22nd November 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Domestic abusers and stalkers should sign national register like sex offenders, commons report says – Daily Telegraph
‘Domestic abusers and stalkers should be forced to sign a national register like sex offenders, a cross-party parliamentary report has said.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd October 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Stalker who bought fake pregnancy belly facing jail after malicious campaign – Daily Telegraph
‘A “deeply manipulative” stalker boasted online about concocting a “super duper defence” before claiming in court that she had been kidnapped and raped by an MI5 agent.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th October 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Woman was murdered by stalker ex-boyfriend after police blunders, report finds – Daily Telegraph
‘A stalking victim was murdered by her ex-boyfriend after police left it to the soldier’s Army bosses to warn him about his behaviour, a report has found.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Alice Ruggles murder: Police ‘failed to investigate concerns properly’ – BBC News
‘Police officers failed to properly investigate complaints a young woman made against her former boyfriend in the days before he brutally murdered her, the police watchdog has found.’
BBC News, 12th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sinister’ Facebook stalker jailed for abusing woman – BBC News
‘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
CPS apologises to Girls Aloud star for not prosecuting stalker – The Guardian
‘The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has apologised to Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts for not prosecuting an ex-boyfriend accused of violating a restraining order for stalking her.’
The Guardian, 22nd July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
New guidelines for ‘revenge porn’ crimes – BBC News
‘People found guilty of repeatedly uploading “revenge porn” will face the toughest punishments when new sentencing guidelines come into force.’
Sentencing council press release
BBC News, 5th July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Halifax man jailed for plotting revenge on authorities – BBC News
‘A man “obsessed with revenge” against the legal system after losing a court case has been jailed for 15 years.’
BBC News, 13th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
My online stalker: The feeling he could hurt me never went away – BBC News
‘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
