REDRUTH MAN JAILED FOR CONTROLLING AND COERCIVE BEHAVIOUR, KIDNAPPING, AND THREATS TO KILL
A jealous ex who was sexually infatuated with his former girlfriend tied her up in the back of his van and drove around Cornwall for hours after taking her to have sex with another man, spying on her while she was having sex and writing notes that he would kill her.Out of jealousy, Aaron Jacka and his victim started a relationship in 2024 which was only supposed to be sexual.
However, it developed quickly and his victim moved in with him and his family in Redruth.
Despite the relationship breaking up, the pair remained in touch.
On May 19 last year, Jacka agreed to drive his ex-partner to the address of another man she was seeing.
A sentencing hearing at Truro Crown Court heard how the 30-year-old from Trenoweth Estate, North Country, outside Redruth, stayed outside the property and spied on the couple having sex.
Out of jealousy, he wrote notes saying he would kill her.
One such message read out in court said: "I'm killing her.
She's having sex with another man.
She's breaking me." Another note said he would kill his ex-girlfriend slowly, adding: "I can hear her having sex with him.
It's horrible." When his ex-girlfriend left the property, Jacka told her he was surprised she had not filmed her sexual intercourse with the other man and sent him the video, admitting "it turned him on".
The court heard that Jacka and his ex had consensual sex later that night but he then drove her to a notorious suicide spot in Cornwall where he threatened to take his own life.
Jacka was talked down by his ex, and he agreed to drive her home in the Newquay area.
However, the court heard how he restrained her hands and legs with cable ties in the back of the van telling her this could be "done the easy way or the hard way" and put his hands over her mouth.
He later cut the ties off with a knife and drove his victim to a secluded National Trust location near a reservoir where he asked her to masturbate him, something she did not want to do.
The court heard how he told her "the only outcome would be her killing him or him killing her".
After eight hours, Jacka eventually drove his victim home to Newquay where, exhausted and traumatised, she confessed everything that had happened to her mother.
They went to the local police station, and Jacka was arrested at his home address later that day and was charged with one count of false imprisonment.
The court heard how he sent his victim a card telling her she was the "love of his life".
Days before his trial, he pleaded guilty to a single count of false imprisonment.
In a victim impact statement, which Jacka's victim read out in court, she said she has been struggling since what happened last May and her mental health has crashed as a result.
She said: "I'm struggling to leave the house.
I cry every morning.
I get scared because I think something is going to happen.
I think about what happened all the time.
I have nightmares.
I feel trapped.
I can't even escape when I am asleep." She told the court she had to see her GP and has been deemed unfit to work due to her mental health.
She added: "I feel physically sick.
I feel run down.
I don't want to be in Cornwall knowing that he is here.
I am scared that he will further harm me." Jacka's victim said she had taken to drinking more alcohol as a coping mechanism and had attempted to take her own life as a result of her ordeal.
She added: "When I was in the back of the van I was convinced I was going to die." In mitigation, Heather Hope said Jacka is a young man with no previous convictions who regarded his ex from a "position of love" and did not want to hurt her.
She said he showed genuine remorse for the distress and anguish caused, as well as for the effect on others.
Ms.
Hope mentioned he has no history of hurting other women, and he has been struggling mentally with his mother's cancer and the death of his brother to suicide, whom he was close to.
She said Jacka recognizes that his relationship with his victim was "unconventional" and "wrong for them" and that people's sex lives are nuanced.
Ms Hope said Jacka had a mental health and emotional breakdown, suffered a crisis, and his actions were not planned but a result of a meltdown.
She stated he recognizes his wrongdoing but is not a bad man.
His Honour Judge James Adkin told Jacka that sending his victim a card after unlawfully detaining her for eight hours showed a "complete lack of empathy about the false imprisonment and its consequences".
The judge sentenced Jacka to four years and 11 months in prison with three years on licence, and imposed a restraining order banning contact with his victim for life.
The court noted that Jacka’s remorse, lack of previous convictions, and the impact on his family were considerations, but a custodial sentence was deemed necessary.
"You had a sexual obsession with your victim and imprisoned her for eight hours," he said.
"This is an extreme example of controlling and coercive behaviour.
Writing notes to say you're going to kill your victim shows a desire to control her.
Sending her a card was bizarre."
