Detective said she’d petrol bomb our home
Domestic violence officer faces jail for stalking ex and new lover
A WOMAN police officer subjected her ex to a menacing six-month stalking campaign after he dumped her and took up with a new lover.
Detective Constable Kirsty Anderson – who worked in a domestic violence unit – used her own police force’s computer to threaten Michael Hall, 36, and his new partner, telling them: ‘Life will be hell.’
The jealous detective, 39, even told Mr Hall to watch his two sons who ‘could disappear’. She also threatened to spread untrue rumours Mr Hall’s new girlfriend Sarah Stroud, 37, was HIV positive and said she would petrol bomb Miss Stroud’s home while her daughter, aged five, slept.
Now the West Yorkshire police officer is facing jail after pleading guilty at Bradford Crown Court to harassing Mr Hall, leaving him in fear of violence. She also admitted using police computers to access data which she was not authorised to view.
Anderson – who had dated Mr Hall for eight weeks after meeting via Tinder – began her campaign when he dumped her, sending him a series of emails warning ‘Ur life will be hell’ and ‘U will live a nightmare’.
She bombarded him with dozens of messages begging him to come back and sent three others under a fake address containing the threats. Speaking after the case, Miss Stroud, a shop assistant from Leeds, said she still feels petrified that Anderson is watching her.
She said: ‘Knowing someone could be watching you and your children is terrible. I’ve suffered terrible panic attacks, hardly slept and had my hair fall out through stress.’
Mr Hall, a separated father of two sons aged five and 15, met the detective in March 2016. He said: ‘Kirsty seemed bubbly and chatty and at first we hit it off. But alarm bells rang when just a week after we met she said she’d booked a romantic weekend away in the Lake District for us. She quickly grew possessive. She didn’t want me to see my friends and family.’ After eight weeks the painter and decorator ended their relationship but she continued to bombarded him with long emails begging him to come back. In November 2016 Mr Hall began dating Miss Stroud, an old school friend who is also separated with two children aged five and 18. Three weeks after meeting, the couple announced their relationship on Facebook – and shortly afterwards, in February 2017, Mr Hall received the first of three shocking emails from a fake address. He said: ‘When I opened the first email and read how my sons “could disappear” and threatening to burn Sarah’s house down, I was horrified. Neither Sarah nor myself could think of anyone who would send such a terrible emails. However, a few months earlier Sarah had been to the police herself after some tyres were slashed outside her house. ‘At the time she mentioned to the police who she thought it was – and the emails were sent in the same christian name.’ The couple reported the emails to the police who began investigating and discovered Anderson was behind the messages. The court heard Anderson – who has resigned from the force – had a ‘raft of mental health problems’. She is due to be sentenced on January 26.