DARREN BECKERLEG, ST AUSTELL IN COURT FOR HELSTON STALKING
A stalker who climbed up onto his victim’s conservatory and banged on her bedroom window as well as leaving chalk drawings on her outside walls has been given a suspended prison sentence.Darren Andrew Beckerleg, aged 36, of Cusgarne Hall, Truro Road, St Austell had already pleaded guilty in February this year to the harassment of a woman in Helston.
Truro magistrates’ Court heard that Beckerleg had admitted harassment without violence between July 15, 2022 and July 19, 2022 at Helston.
In that he pursued a course of conduct which amounted to the harassment of a named woman and which you knew or ought to have known amounted to the harassment of her.
On July 15 he went to her address and made chalk drawings on the outside walls, climbed on her conservatory, banging on her bedroom window and also messaged her.
On July 16 he sent numerous further messages and was seen outside of her address.
On July 17 he sent her a Tik Tok video message and on July 18 he sent e-mails, made withheld telephone calls and turned up at her address.
He was committed to prison for 18 weeks suspended for 24 months because magistrates said the offence was so serious because of persistent and prolonged harassment against the victim.
Beckerleg must comply with a supervision period of 18 months including treatment for alcohol dependency by or under the direction of We Are With You for six months.
He must also carry out unpaid work for 150 hours within the next 12 months.
A restraining order lasting until April 24, 2026 was also made forbidding him from contacting the named woman directly or indirectly and not to her enter the road of her home address in Helston.
He was ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £154 and crown prosecution costs of £85.
His guilty plea taken into account when imposing sentence.
