A woman has told of how she feared for her safety after her ex breathed on her neck in a supermarket while she was with her young son in a sickening stalking campaign which lasted for months. The woman had previously been in a brief relationship with Colin Goulding before he made her life hell, Newport Crown Court heard.
David Pugh, prosecuting, told a sentencing hearing how Goulding stalked the woman for months including parking outside her house and revving his engine six times a day, waving at her children as she took them to the park, breathing on her neck in Asda as she shopped with her son, and swinging his car onto the pavement in rage which just missed her son.
Goulding denied stalking but he was later found guilty at a trial at Newport Magistrates' Court. In the trial Goulding claimed he had not been in contact with the woman for a “long time” and said he would drive past her house because he could access his property in that direction but maps show it was clearly a dead-end road and he lived in the opposite direction. CCTV footage provided to the victim by domestic abuse charity Phoenix showed Goulding sitting outside her home on multiple occasions.
