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Dorian Williams would bombard his ex with calls and emails and turn up at her place of work

A stalker has been jailed after mounting a “sinister campaign” against his former partner including calling her up to 40 times a day. Dorian Williams would continuously ring and email his ex, as well as driving past her house while loudly revving his car and blaring the horn, and showing up at her workplace.

Williams, 49, was arrested and released on bail, before appearing in court and being charged in relation to the harassment. But even these didn’t stop him from continuing to stalk his ex.

Prosecutor Emily Bennett told the court that Williams and the complainant had started going out in 2020. During their relationship the defendant had tried to isolate the complainant from her friends and family, including stopping her seeing them and making negative comments about her, WalesOnline reports.

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He would also exhibit controlling behaviour, Ms Bennett said, including taking her car keys and phone in an attempt to control her access to the world. When she did spend time with someone else, the court heard that Williams would be messaging her and checking on her constantly.

One year, when the complainant had spent Christmas with her family, the defendant had messaged her asking “who are you sh*gging now?” and calling her a “two-faced b**ch”.

The abuse also became physical, with Williams grabbing her mobile phone and throwing it in her face, as well as holding her down by her wrists hard enough to leave marks.

When the woman ended the relationship Williams began to stalk her. This included calling her up to 40 times a day, and then contacting her on social media and email when she blocked his number.

Williams would accuse the woman of “making a fool of him” and would emotionally blackmail her including telling her, “I’m crying every night – I love you”, and saying he hadn’t eaten food for days and it was her fault.

The defendant also drove past the complainant’s house, revving his car loudly and sounding the horn as he did so. He would also arrive at her place of work, as well as posting about her on Facebook and trying to contact her student son.

Williams was arrested in November last year and released, but the relentless stalking continued. He was then arrested again in December and charged before appearing at Swansea Crown Court and being bailed.

But after this, his campaign simply carried on until he was arrested again in February when he told officers: “this is harassment”.

The defendant’s barrister described him as “quite meek and timid in his presentation”. Sending Williams to prison a judge told him he had engaged in “emotional blackmail of staggering immaturity”.

In a statement read to the court by the prosecutor the complainant said the emotional blackmail she had suffered from Williams had a profound impact on her mental health. She said that she struggled to recognise herself as the person she was before the relationship.

Dorian Williams, of Bryn Salem, Felinfach, Pembrokeshire, had previously pleaded guilty to engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour and to stalking when he appeared in then dock for sentencing.

He has previous convictions for harassment and breaching a restraining order in relation to a different victim. Ian Ibrahim, for Williams, said the defendant’s best mitigation was his guilty pleas.

He described his client as “quite meek and timid in his presentation” and said the MoT inspector wished to apologise “without reservation” to the complainant. The barrister noted that in the pre-sentence report the defendant had said: “I loved her so much. I hoped there was another chance for us.”

Judge Paul Thomas KC said Williams had sought to dominate his partner’s life and then embarked on a “sinister campaign” of stalking when he was unable to come to terms with the break-up, employing “emotional blackmail of staggering immaturity”.

With a one-quarter discount for his guilty plea, Williams was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He will serve up to half the sentence in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.

The defendant was made the subject of a five-year restraining order banning him from contacting his former partner.