A jealous and controlling husband spent years monitoring his wife's movements and communications, a court has heard. Christopher Bevan hacked his partner's online accounts, fitted a tracking device to her car, constantly accused her of being unfaithful, and installed CCTV cameras in the marital home.
On one occasion when he was working away he even insisted she walk around the house doing a video call to prove there was nobody with her. Swansea Crown Court heard Bevan's obsessive and jealous behaviour had a devastating impact on his now ex wife Kath, leaving her "mentally and physically exhausted" and feeling vulnerable and isolated.
Dean Pulling, prosecuting, said Bevan and his partner began a relationship in 2006 and married in 2012, living first in Llangyfelach in Swansea before moving to Hendy near Pontrarddulais. He said according to Kath Bevan the marriage was initially good, but that over time the defendant began to distance himself from family and friends, and after she returned to work following a period of maternity leave he increasingly played less of a role in the family and would stay up late at night and sleep during the day.
