'OBSESSIVE' NEWCASTLE STALKER HARASSED EX-GIRLFRIEND FROM JAIL WITH UP TO 50 CALLS A DAY
A stalker jailed for pestering his former partner was able to bombard her with up to 50 unwanted calls a day while in prison.When Scott Hulse was locked up last year, his victim finally thought she might get some respite from the 'obsessed' menace.
But then the repeated phone calls from custody started.
And despite her pleas to two different prisons to stop him, they kept happening.
** Newcastle Crown Court** heard Hulse, 29, of Hallow Drive, Throckley, Newcastle, was jailed for 20 months in May last year for offences including three counts of breaching a restraining order.
Having continued to breach the order with his almost daily phone calls, he then kept pestering her when he was released later last year.
The woman said in a victim impact statement that his behaviour had been an ongoing problem for years and she's scared for the safety of herself and her family and wants it to end.
Hulse, 29, has 18 previous convictions and an "appalling" record for similar offences, the court heard.
In 2018 he got a suspended sentence for stalking and controlling another woman, a sentence that was later activated when he breached a restraining order.
There were then subsequent breaches of a restraining order.
He also has previous convictions against the woman in the latest case, including for stalking and battery and the breaches of restraining order for which he was jailed last year.
A pre-sentence report said he poses a high risk to future partners and a very high risk of harm to the victim.
He admitted two counts of breaching a restraining order and stalking.
He was jailed for 21 months and told the restraining order remains in place.
Jamie Adams, defending, said Hulse has an "obsessiveness and inability to accept a relationship is over" but said there was "an absence of any actual violence".
