Police release mugshot of Pontypool stalker Daniel Dancey

POLICE RELEASE MUGSHOT OF PONTYPOOL STALKER DANIEL DANCEY

POLICE have released the mugshot of a stalker who threatened to share an “intimate photograph” of an ex-girlfriend when she was “partially undressed”.

Daniel Dancey, 34, from Pontypool bombarded the woman with nearly 100 phone calls and messages in defiance of a restraining order.

After his conviction for stalking, the defendant was made the subject of a five-year order.

Almost as soon as he was released from custody for that offence, he began to breach the order.

Zoe Laugharne, prosecuting, told Cardiff Crown Court that one of the messages he sent asked her: “How much for you to sit on my face?” He also sent her “disturbing” messages while transferring money into her bank account.

In a victim impact statement, she revealed: “As soon as he was released, I went back to living in fear.

I do not feel comfortable doing day-to-day activities without feeling anxious.

I have had to change the locks on my front and back doors and I keep the curtains closed downstairs.

He literally does not care.

I’m suffering from constant panic attacks.

I struggle to sleep on a regular basis and I struggle to concentrate in work.

It’s going to take me a long time to trust anyone again – if I ever do.

I wish I’d never met him.” Miss Laugharne added: “Very real distress was caused to the victim.” Dancey, of Waunddu, Pontnewynydd pleaded guilty to harassment, being in breach of a restraining order, and threatening to share a photograph or film of a person in an intimate state.

His barrister Hillary Roberts said his client had a “good work record” and urged the court to spare him jail because “he needs help” from the probation service.

Judge Simon Mills told Dancey: “This was a campaign of harassment.” The defendant was jailed for 30 months and told he would serve half of that in custody before being released on licence.

He was also ordered to pay a statutory victim surcharge.