ITV presenter’s stalker spouse put tracking tool in her car
AN ITV weather presenter was stalked by her husband who placed a tracking device inside her car to monitor her whereabouts, a court heard.
Ruth Dodsworth, 46, said her life with Jonathan Wignall was like “constantly walking on eggshells” because of his obsessive behaviour.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Wignall rang her dozens of times a day, demanded access to her phone to check her messages and forced her to spend her lunch breaks with him.
The 54-year-old was jailed for three years after he admitted controlling and coercive behaviour.
The court heard that Ms Dodsworth left her husband after 17 years of marriage after Wignall bombarded her with more than 150 phone calls in one day and was arrested for harassing his wife.
But after they split Wignall placed a tracking device under the steering wheel of her car and set alarms on his phone for when she was scheduled to present the weather.
The court heard that police seized Wignall’s laptop and phone and found an app linked to the tracking device that he had accessed more than 250 times in less than three weeks.
Judge Daniel Williams told Wignall he was a “high risk” to his ex-wife as he handed him a restraining order banning him from contacting her.