Stalker Neal Hancock has made his victims’ lives “hell”
A “harmful” stalker is again behind bars after attempting to contact one in every of his victims on social media. Final yr Neal Hancock was jailed for breaching a restraining order following a prolonged and sinister marketing campaign of harassment towards three individuals.
Now Hancock is again in jail after breaching the restraining order once more, this time by approaching one in every of his victims on Instagram one thing he’s prohibited from doing.
In an interview with Walesonline final yr, Hancock’s victims bravely spoke out to element the devastating influence his behaviour was having on their lives.
Bethan Simms from Port Talbot described how the defendant would always bombard her with messages on Fb, creating new accounts each time she blocked him. Hancock then started stalking her in individual in addition to on-line, and likewise began stalking Bethan’s mom Kathryn.
The defendant would message the ladies detailing precisely the place they have been and what they have been doing after they have been out and about, and he instructed Bethan that he knew she had kids and he described them to her intimately.
The stalking of Bethan went on for greater than 4 years and have become so unhealthy she felt scared to go away her home and she or he needed to inform her kids’s college and present them footage from social media of what her stalker appeared like within the hope that employees would recognise him if he was seen close to the varsity.
It then emerged the daughter and mom weren’t Hancock’s solely victims when a mutual buddy launched them to Carl Mallon, somebody who had identified of the defendant of their teenage years.
In Carl’s case what started as homophobic abuse and name-calling changed into stalking which continued for a for much longer interval than it did for Bethan. It crippled Carl to the purpose he left his job and moved home. You’ll be able to learn our interview with the victims right here – “Our stalker has made our life hell for years”
Neal Hancock, aged 39, beforehand of Lingfield Avenue, Port Talbot, however now of Ambassador Lodge, The Parade, Neath, pleaded responsible to breaching a restraining order by sending a message to Bethan Simms on Instagram when he appeared at Swansea Magistrates Court docket. The defendant was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail.
Talking after the sentencing South Wales Police inspector Jared Easton mentioned: “Neal Hancock is clearly a harmful particular person who refuses to be taught his lesson and has brought about all method of trauma for his poor sufferer. His behaviour in the direction of this sufferer has been ongoing for a number of years now. It’s utterly unacceptable, and no one ought to must put up with a protracted marketing campaign like this.”
