A stalker who was fitted with a satellite tracker after following and harassing a woman for two years has been jailed for breaching his suspended sentence. Jeremy Inglis turned up drunk at one probation appointment then took a knife to another before pointing the weapon at himself and then his probation officer. A judge at Swansea Crown Court activated the previously-imposed sentence.
Inglis was given a suspended sentence and fitted with a GPS tracker to monitor his movements in June last year after being convicted of stalking. On that occasion the court heard how he had met his victim met through a shared interest in photography but when the woman became concerned about his behaviour and tried to distance herself from him he began an online campaign against her and started hanging around her place of work and following her in the streets.
The court heard how the woman would see Inglis while she was walking to Mumbles and that the sightings were "too many times for it to be a coincidence" and then a Christmas card from the defendant arrived at her house despite the fact she had never revealed her address to him prompting fears she had been followed home. The harassment lasted for two years.
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The defendant was arrested in early 2022 and in his interview claimed it was the woman who was, in fact, stalking him. After pleading guilty to one count of stalking causing alarm or distress Jeremy Inglis, of Park Way, Sketty Park, Swansea, was sentenced to nine months in prison suspended for two years and was ordered to complete a rehabilitation course and was made subject to a GPS "trail monitoring" requirement for six months.
The 55-year-old defendant returned to the dock of the crown court this month where he admitted breaching the conditions of his suspended sentence. Georgia Donohue, prosecuting, told the court the breach related to three separate probation appointments: Inglis failed to turned up for one; turned up under the influence of alcohol for another; and then produced a knife and pointed the weapon at himself and the probation officer in February this year.
The judge activated the previously-imposed suspended sentence but reduced it to six months to take account of Inglis' successful completion of the trail monitoring element of the sentence. The defendant will serve up to half the six months in prison before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.
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