Controlling cop told his lingerie shop lover: Hide your f igure in a f leece
A JEALOUS policeman ordered his lingerie saleswoman girlfriend to wear a fleece to work because he did not want people looking at her in a tight- fitting T-shirt, a court heard.
James Addison, 21, would visit Emma Coulter, 20, at work to make abusive remarks about her clothes.
When Miss Coulter eventually broke up with Addison he bombarded her with 190 calls in a single day, and more than 1,000 emails in three months.
He would also turn up at her house uninvited and on one occasion looked around inside at 3am after refusing to believe she wasn’t home.
Addison, who is no longer a policeman, pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to stalking Miss Coulter by engaging in a course of conduct which caused her fear or alarm, between January and September 2016.
Yesterday a judge sentenced the former officer in Lothian and Borders to 100 hours unpaid work and ordered him not to contact Miss Coulter for two years. The court heard that the pair started dating in April 2014 when Miss Coulter was still at school. But two years later she ended their relationship because of his jealousy, as well as his abusive and controlling behaviour.
Prosecuting, Elizabeth Aitken, said: ‘During the relationship he [Addison] would phone and text her very regu-
‘Upset and tearful’
larly. He would use social media to monitor her movements. He would frequently make remarks about where she had been, having gleaned information [from] monitoring her.’
According to her Facebook page, Miss Coulter is a Debenhams lingerie saleswoman. Controlling Addison, from Cowie, Stirling, often turned up at the store she worked at in central Glasgow and on one occasion shouted at her for what she was wearing.
Miss Aitken said: ‘He made abusive and derogatory remarks. He wanted her to wear clothing which concealed her figure and objected to her fitted work T- shirts. He wanted her to wear her fleece which came down to below her bottom.’
A colleague noticed on another occasion Miss Coulter was visibly unhappy and nervous when Addison showed up. Between January and May last year he repeatedly turned up at her house uninvited.
Miss Aitken said: ‘On one occasion the accused came to the door at 3am asking to see Miss Coulter and did not appear to believe it when he was told she was not home.’
Not taking no for an answer, he was allowed in to check for himself. Miss Coulter ended the relationship in the July, but the volume of calls and texts increased. He ‘constantly bombarded her’ with phone calls, emails, and messages before she blocked his number. But Miss Aitken added: ‘He began to send her hundreds of emails and changed the settings on his phone to an “unknown number” so he could bypass the block and continued to bombard her with calls.’
The court heard that between August 11 and 12, Miss Coulter received 190 calls from him with 100 being made between midnight and 1am. He sent around 1,000 emails between July and September begging her to take him back, or being angry and threatening.
Miss Coulter described his behaviour as ‘relentless’ and said it ‘wore her down, making her feel fearful and constantly upset and tearful’. Addison was finally arrested last October after the victim’s mother reported him to police over his behaviour.