Jailed Stalker asked woman for sex video

ACONVICTED stalker who asked his victim to send him a sex video of herself has been jailed. In April, Johnathan Harvey was given a suspended jail term for breaching a restraining order against the woman, Bristol Crown Court heard.

But he went on to bombard her with messages, including a request for her to send him footage of her being intimate with a man.

The woman was so distressed she began to worry a court could do nothing to protect her.

Harvey, 28, whose address was given as Brixham Road in Bedminster but who has since moved to Cornwall, admitted a further breach of a restraining order.

Judge Mark Horton jailed him for 23 months. He told him: “You have conducted yourself in a deliberate, persistent and oppressive manner.

“Your actions were an attempt to control, manipulate and bully her.

“Your behaviour was intended to make her believe there was nothing the court could do to stop you behaving in the way you did to harm, upset and bully her.”

The judge made Harvey subject to a fiveyear restraining order to have no contact whatsoever with the woman.

Gregory Gordon, prosecuting, said in July Harvey repeatedly messaged the complainant, threatening to visit her and demanding her to tell him who she was being intimate with and asking for sexual footage.

The woman made a statement in which she confirmed she had installed CCTV at her home but had suffered reduced sleep and weight loss.

She said: “I believe he is obsessed with me.

“One message was an offer of leaving his girlfriend for me.

“I feel I can never escape him.

“He said ‘If I can’t have you, no one can’. “It makes me worried he will kill me. I feel I can’t start a relationship because he would kill us both.”

Harvey told police the woman had replied to his messages and said there was nothing malicious going on.

Edward Hetherington, defending, conceded: “His behaviour was appalling to this woman.

“He has had an impact on her life for which he must be punished.”

Mr Hetherington said his client had moved from Bristol to Cornwall, where he had made a new home and secured work.

Harvey wrote a letter to the court in which he said: “Dear Judge, Please accept my apologies for my actions. I’m very sorry for what transpired.”