Judge at Southampton Crown Court tells Calmore man “This is over between you” after hearing how he attacked and terrorised his former girlfriend

A MAN attacked his former girlfriend after she finished with him then terrorised her for weeks by harassing her at work and at her children’s school.

Colin Fredericks “refused to accept” their relationship was over, Southampton Crown Court heard, and bombarded his victim with threatening texts messages and phone calls

His behaviour had so frightened her young daughter that she had gone to live with her grandmother.

The victim told Fredericks (60), a lorry driver from Paddock, Calmore, they were finished after the defendant accused her of being unfaithful while she was on a family holiday in August last year.

Prosecutor Keely Harvey said the defendant was told by the woman to be out of her home, where he was living, by the time she got back on the 28th of the month.

But when she arrived home she found him still packing. An angry Fredericks told her: “You are going to regret this; you’ve made a massive mistake.”

Ms Harvey said he then called the woman a “slag” before elbowing her in the face. The prosecutor said: “She felt pain in her mouth and when she looked in a mirror she saw blood.”

The defendant shouted that she “deserved what she got” then kicked a radiator cover, cracking it. The woman then shut herself in her lounge.

Fredericks, who pleaded guilty to assault by beating, sexual assault, harassment without violence and criminal damage, started kicked the door, damaging it before leaving the house. She locked him out but he kicked and hit the front door, damaging that too.

As he drove away, he sent messages to the woman begging her not to call the police, the court heard.

He later called asking her to change her mind, and when she arrived at work on 31st August she found the defendant there. He asked to speak to her, and she went outside with him.

Ms Harvey said: “He was begging her to take him back and said he would give her his pay packet every day for a year. He then took hold of her wrists and went to kiss her.”

The woman moved her head and Fredericks, who has 28 previous convictions for 79 offences including domestic assault, ended up “pecking” her cheek. He then told her, ‘This isn’t over’, which the woman “perceived as a threat.”

He started following her around, one time turning up at her children’s school. As she sat in her car the defendant lent in the window and grabbed her shoulder, telling her: “This is all your fault. If I try to kill myself again it will be your fault.”

In a victim impact statement, the woman said: “I am not my bubbly, outgoing self anymore. I can’t sleep, as if I hear a noise, or the dog barks, I am frightened.”

Defending, Ruba Huleihel said Fredericks’ last conviction was ten years ago. She said he “regrets the way he has behaved” and “accepts he behaved appallingly”.

Jailing Fredericks for two months, suspended for 18 months, Judge Christopher Parker KC told him: “You’ve ended up behaving like an immature 20-year-old rather than a 60-year-old man.”

He ordered him to pay £75 compensation for the criminal damage.

Giving him a restraining order for 18 months preventing any contact with the victim, he told the defendant: “This is over between you.”

Fredericks will also be on the sex offenders register for five years, and must attend an accredited programme for 30 hours and do five days of rehabilitation activity.