Holywell mum found guilty of stalking

Lisa Adamson, 37, of Bryn Garth, Penyffordd, Holywell, who works in a care home, had warned Gareth Appleby she would make his life “hell,” magistrates at Llandudno heard.

Mr Appleby said in evidence that their relationship had lasted six months. He claimed the “possessive” blonde began to deceive him “the greatest of which was a lie about having a miscarriage with my child.”

He alleged she had threatened to make false accusations to children’s services that he was a bad parent and a drug dealer. There had also been a “heated” confrontation when she turned up at the caravan where he was living.

“It was the same sort of blackmailing, if I don’t come back to her she’s going to carry on,” Mr Appleby said. She wouldn’t take no for an answer and threatened to “destroy” him.

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“I had never been intimidated in that way in my life,” he declared.

Mr Appleby said he called in the police because of unwanted contact. “She would use Facebook, WhatsApp or different phone numbers,” he said. “I just wanted it to stop.”

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Mr Appleby said he also received “fake” baby scan pictures which could be bought on eBay. “As far as I am aware, there is no baby and never was,” he told the court.

Solicitor Graham Parry, for Adamson, said he had never explained to her why the relationship had ended.

John Rowlands, his boss for a windscreen replacement firm, said Adamson had contacted him last August and she claimed her ex-boyfriend picked up drugs in his van. But he checked a tracker and there was no evidence to support this accusation.

Mr Rowlands said “aggressive” Adamson had threatened to “go public.”

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Mr Appleby’s mother Deborah Newbegin described Adamson as “pushy” and she’d been worried for her son.

But Adamson denied stalking between August 8 and September 30 at St Asaph by calling at his home, phoning and messaging him, forwarding £25 into his bank account and calling his employer.

She said they had both just split from their partners and their relationship started slow “but it got quite serious.”

She said Mr Appleby told her he loved her and “never once said to me ‘I don’t want to be with you anymore’.” She alleged there was “tit-for-tat” and she had thought he had a sexual video of her.

Prosecutor Amy McKechnie said Adamson was upset that the relationship had ended and wanted revenge. She’d breached bail conditions and the contact caused alarm and distress.

Court chairwoman Hilary Owen said the prosecution witnesses had been “credible and honest” and Adamson’s evidence wasn’t credible. Adamson was convicted of the offence and bailed for a pre-sentence report.

The magistrate warned her: ”This is very, very serious.”

The prosecution said Mr Appleby had been off work with stress and Adamson had a “relevant” previous caution for harassment.

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