Torment for Bethany Haines as stalker’s sentence overturned.

appeal: Andrew Murray, 22, had subjected her to ‘degrading’ bullying

The daughter of murdered Isis hostage David Haines has spoken of her horror and disgust after the stalker who taunted her about her father’s death had his prison term overturned on appeal yesterday.

Bethany Haines fled the appeal court in distress when judges quashed the 21-month prison sentence which had been imposed on Andrew Murray, 22, at Perth Sheriff Court.

Murray – who appeared via video link for the appeal hearing – was freed after the appeal court judges ruled that the original sentence had been too severe. He was ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work in the community instead.

Outside court, Bethany, 20, said: “It is absolutely appalling. I left the court because I was so upset when they said they were imposing a community payback order and he was getting out.

“I cannot believe that someone who did such horrible things and is a danger to the public can be let off to do community payback.

“I feel it is up to me to make every single woman in the whole country aware of what a menace he is so he doesn’t have an easy life or can do it to someone else.

“I am absolutely distraught because someone that has hurt me the way he has, has just been let off. I am disappointed in the justice system because of the danger of having someone like this on the street.

“The system is clearly failing a number of people in a number of ways. I will be campaigning for domestic abuse victims and for other girls who are being failed by the system.

“I am worried, because he knows where I live and where I go to college and everything about me. I have had to put things in place to protect myself.”

The appeal court was told that Murray had returned to live with a foster family in the north-east of England and was studying sports science at college in Newcastle.

Murray was originally jailed for 21 months for subjecting Bethany to a “degrading and humiliating” campaign of abuse for six months while they were in a relationship.

Murray tore up the treasured 45-page scrapbook which she had compiled in the wake of her father’s gruesome death in Syria.

Murray was freed after the appeal court judges ruled that the original sentence was too severe.

Bethany Haines last September as she left court after seeing Murray plead guilty to stalking her. Yesterday she blasted the justice system over Murray’s release.