His solicitor said his client and the victim were married and had a young son together and that the news the relationship is over is "hitting him hard". Munro pleaded guilty to harassment and to common assault from when he threw the victim's mobile phone at her. I feel like the bail conditions are just being ignored by him and I would like the courts to keep him away from me, my home and for him to get treatment for his alcohol misuse." In it she said: "This has left me feeling scared as he's bigger and stronger than me. He read a victim impact statement made by the partner to the court. Mr Bettany said Munro, who gave an address of Old Hall Road, Brampton, Chesterfield, to the court, admitted he had been waiting outside the address for three-and-a-half hours as he "wanted to sort things out with her". "She said 'at 10.45pm I received a phone call from his mum saying he was coming over and at 11pm I called the police who found him there (at her address)'. Mr Bettany said: "In her statement she said 'Martin said he was going to come to my house and hide in the Wendy House and catch me at it'. Mr Bettany said the defendant then said he would go over to her address because he wanted to get back together with her saying "I just want to be with you" and "I don't care about the police or bail." He said on July 30, Munro went to her home and saw her mobile phone was ringing and that the caller was her new partner.Īt that point her threw it at the victim, with it making contact with her leg. Lots of them were about how much he loved her." "He started to send the victim a number of text messages and if she didn't reply he would call her. He said: "He refused to leave her alone after he moved out when they separated a couple of weeks ago. Peter Bettany, prosecuting, said Munro was on police bail and under its terms was not supposed to go to his partner's address. Now he faces an anxious wait to see whether or not he will face a prison sentence. READ MORE: Drink-drive hairdresser from Derby crashes with three children in carĪnd in her statement to the police, the woman told how her ex "said he was going to come to my house and hide in the Wendy house and catch me at it" with her new partner. Refusing to accept their relationship is over, her then waited for more than three hours outside her address before the police arrived and arrested him. Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court heard how the 49-year-old keeps bombarding the victim with texts and when she doesn't reply, he calls her.
District Judge Jonathan Taaffe told defendant Martin Munro he was a man who "hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest" which is a line from the 1960s duo's famous tune The Boxer.
A Derby judge quoted a Simon and Garfunkel song when addressing a harasser who will not leave his ex-partner alone.
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