A convicted killer told his vulnerable ex-partner he would kill her two hours after being released from prison.
Sean Carrahar, 54, of HMP Altcourse, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday via video link from prison to be sentenced for one count of harassment. Joanne Cronshaw, prosecuting, detailed that Carrahar and the victim - who the ECHO has chosen not to name - were in a relationship when Carrahar was recalled to prison in November 2021.
The victim ended the relationship in June 2022, which is when the harassment began. Between June 9 and July 12, 2022, Carrahar called the victim 642 times using another in-mates phone as he had been barred from calling her.
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On July 12 alone, he called her 38 times, and she ignored them all. As they were made from prison, many of the calls were recorded and the transcripts were read out in court.
Ms Cronshaw said: “Throughout the calls he was abusive and threatening, he constantly asked her what she was doing and who she was with. “He referred to her as a s**g, prostitute and a paedophile multiple times.”
Carrahar also used a racial slur and told the victim he had people “watching her and videoing her, even at night”, and would be out of prison "soon" so would “come and find” her- and kill her within two hours of his release. He would then change tact and tell the victim that he “understood” and loved her.
On July 9, he called her twenty times between 11.09am and 11.15am, and told her he was going to kill her and "chew her face off". The 54 year old said: “I am going to kill you, what I said is I am not just going to hurt you, I am going to kill you".
A court previously heard that on June 30, Carrahar was recorded on the phone saying the victim would “get another two days in the cellar before I end you” if she did not reveal the identity of a man he had allegedly seen her with. He told her “you know I love you so that’s why I’m doing what I’m going to do to you” and said men “will f*** you off because you’re not attractive, you’ve not got a nice body, you smell”.
Carrahar was arrested and interviewed by police and answered no comment to all questions. In a statement given by the victim read to the court, she said she was scared and worried for her life and believes Carrahar might instruct others to hurt or torture her as he threatened to.
Carrahar has 20 previous convictions for 96 offences, including a for one count of manslaughter in 2007 which he received an indeterminate sentence and for which he was recalled to prison under. The then 38-year-old was handed an indefinite term of imprisonment for manslaughter after the death of 61-year-old Peter Harris who was found dead on the morning of Friday, August 5, 2005, by a lorry driver behind Iceland supermarket in Sandbach.
Brendan Carville, defending, said his client has made very good use of his time in prison and completed several courses including maths, English and mentoring. He said Carrahar alleges that the victim stole £7,000 from him, which he was going to use for a headstone for three family members who all died during the pandemic.
A prison officer who worked closely with Carrahar also told the court that he had been bullied in custody by other inmates, but he himself had been a good prisoner. Mr Carville added that the parole board were “very anxious” to let Carrahar out of prison.
In sentencing, Recorder David Knifton KC said: “I accept that in that relationship you could be loving and supportive at times, but at other times, it has clearly been a deeply abusive relationship. “These calls involved the use of deeply misogynistic and racist language.
“At other times previously you expressed your deep love for her during those calls. “They are all the hallmarks of abusive, controlling and abusive behaviour by you towards a vulnerable woman.”
He added: “I could not see during the course of the calls any reference to the alleged theft.” Recorder Knifton also detailed that during meetings with probation, Carrahar “sought to minimise his offending and engaged in victim blaming”, adding he found the convicted killer to be a significant risk of harm to members of the public.
Carrahar was sentenced to 32 months imprisonment plus a three year extended licence, and a restraining order barring him from contacting the victim was put in place.
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