The Ministry of Justice is facing criticism after accidentally sharing intimate details of a victim's anguish to her stalker. In a report by The Guardian on Thursday, Rhianon Bragg from Rhosgadfan in Gwynedd said that the MoJ's sharing of such details to Gareth Wyn Jones has provided him with more "ammunition".
Rhianon Bragg was coercively controlled and abused by Gareth Wyn Jones, who was finally jailed in 2020 after he held her hostage at gunpoint for eight hours in 2019. Jones ambushed Ms Bragg as she returned to her rural farmhouse and held her hostage in a barn for eight hours, repeatedly threatening to kill her and leave her children motherless.
It was the final act in a campaign of harassment towards her, which started in April 2019 when she ended their five year relationship. He admitted charges of stalking, false imprisonment, making a threat to kill, as well as a shotgun charge.
