Woman awoke to ex-partner staring at her from bedside
AWOMAN woke up in the middle of the night to find her ex-partner standing over the bed staring at her, a court heard.
William Kyaruhanga, of Belgrave Road, Macclesfield, had been ‘drinking to excess’ and went into the victim’s unlocked house in the early hours of June 9 this year.
The woman, who was mourning the death of her mother, had also been left ‘scared’ four months earlier after Kyaruhanga came to her Macclesfield home and ‘looked through the window’.
The 51-year-old defendant pleaded guilty at Stockport Magistrates Court to harassment with- out violence.
He was given a 12-month conditional discharge with 15 days of rehabilitation work, fined £200 and ordered to pay £300 costs.
A restraining order was also imposed preventing him from contacting or going to the address of the complainant for two years.
Prosecutor Victoria Norman said Kyaruhanga had been in a relationship with the victim for more than a year before they separated.
She told the court: “On February 1 he attended at his ex-partner’s home where he was seen looking through the window and knocked on the window.
“She was with her children and she was scared, locking doors and win- dows. He was told to go, and left.
“On June 9 she was at home asleep with her partner in the early hours.
“She awoke and saw the defendant standing over her in the bedroom glaring at her.
“She says that at that time she was grieving the death of her mother and that this may have led to her failing to lock the door.”
Defence solicitor Lucy Crossman said Kyaruhanga had been drinking heavily nearby at the home of friends on the night of the second incident. She told the court: “When arrested by police nearby he told them he could recall being on her doorstep but nothing else. He had been drinking to excess.”
Miss Cross said the defendant was also grieving after the death of his son last year and that previously his ex-partner would be ‘a shoulder to cry on’ and they would console each other.
The court heard that Kyaruhanga had been living in the area for 35 years since arriving from Uganda and had been employed for the past 34 years.