Woman phoned her ex 44 times in less than a week

49-YEAR-OLD WAS BANNED FROM CONTACTING FORMER PARTNER AFTER ATTACKING HIM

A WOMAN who phoned her ex-partner 44 times in less than a week claimed she “misdialled” and “phoned him in error”.

Jennifer Jones, 49, rang the man dozens of times over Christmas 2020 –despite an indefinite restraining order being in place.

She had pleaded guilty to harassing Dylan Owen Davies at an earlier hearing and Caernarfon magistrates yesterday gave her an eight-week jail term, suspended for 12 months.

The court heard that Jones, of Bowling Green Lane, Caernarfon, had begun a relationship with Mr Davies in 2009 but it ended in 2012.

She assaulted her former partner Mr Davies and in 2013 was made the subject of an indefinite restraining order, prohibiting her from contacting him.

But prosecutor Diane Williams said that in 2020 Mr Davies began to suspect that his ex was trying to contact him.

He realised she was indeed doing so when at 3.30pm on Christmas Day 2020 he received a phone call from her phone number.

The prosecutor said that Mr Davies said that Jones suggested that she was going to report him over an incident. She rang him a further 43 times.

The court heard Jones called Mr Davies again between December 27 and December 31.

He said: “I didn’t answer. I knew that it was her trying to get in touch with me to try to find out where I am.”

In a victim statement Mr Davies said it was harassment, which only reminded him about the physical abuse she inflicted on him.

He said this time the effect was more mental but the stress led to higher blood pressure and exacerbated his illnesses.

“I feared she might find out where I live,” he added.

In a police interview in January 2021, Jones said she thought the restraining order had expired.

She denied contacting Mr Davies and refused to give police the PIN for her phone nor her network provider.

Yesterday a probation officer told Caernarfon Magistrates that Jones had been “evasive” in her interview with him.

The mother-of-three questioned whether she even knew her victim’s name or rang him that many times that Christmas. She said if she had she must have “misdialled” and “phoned him in error”.

But magistrates chairman Julie Eddows told Jones: “You made a great number of harassing phone calls to this gentleman and all of them were unwarranted.

“You caused him issues with his health and when you were interviewed by the probation service you were evasive.” There was little chance of rehabilitation.

The bench imposed the suspended jail term and ordered the defendant to observe an eight-week curfew between 6pm and 6am.