“The constant messaging is incredibly draining and it scares me.”
Tramain Jeanne texted and called his ex-partner over 2,700 times in two-months, and on one occasion threatened to blow up her house.
Jeanne, 26, of Boswell Close, Llanrumney “fell very hard and very quickly” for his ex-girlfriend but after their two-month relationship ended, he stalked and harassed her, turning up at her house and place of work.
The relationship started just four-months after the death of Jeanne’s younger brother in a car crash. Jeanne had “considerable struggles with his mental health” since then, argued defence solicitor Matthew de Maid.
On the night of September 8, the claimant, was woken by Jeanne, who was shouting for her from outside her house. He then proceeded to bang on her front door, smashing a window.
Then, from September 9 to November 4, Mr Jeanne began to bombarded his former partner with 2,376 texts and phone calls.
Prosecutor Charlotte Bignell described the texts as, “desperate pleas from the defendant to take him back”.
Ms Bignell explained how Jeanne’s texts became increasingly aggressive as he suspected his former partner was in a new relationship. Threats to smash up her address and blow up her property were “indicative of this period of time,” heard the Magistrates.
On February 14, Jeanne turned up the beauty salon where his ex-partner worked, demanding to speak to her. He only left when he was informed that police had been called, said the prosecution.
Verbal threats to blow up her house continued. He began to message his ex-partners relatives, including her cousin and 15-year-old daughter. Jeanne only promised to stop once she confirmed she wasn’t with someone else.
“It is clear from the evidence that this is a sustained incident,” said Ms Bignell.
In a victim impact statement read by Ms Bignell at Cardiff Magistrates Court today on behalf of her client, magistrates heard that Jeanne’s ex-partner felt “trapped and that she cannot go out with her friends without feeling like she is being watched,” and that she has “taken several days off work because she is too scared to be in work alone.”
“I feel anxious about his whereabouts,” said the statement. “Ever since ending our relationship I have been anxious about what the defendant (Jeanne) is going to do.”
Ms Bignell explained how her client lived “in fear of contacting the police” because she worried about what Jeanne would do. “It is clear that this is having a significant impact on her day-to-day life, as well as her daughters,” explained Ms Bignell.
Jeanne’s defence solicitor, Matthew de Maid, argued that his client was “going through a very difficult period of his life,” following the death of his younger brother, Rafel, in a car crash in St Melons last year.
Magistrates also heard from the defence that Jeanne had “remained calm and placid” when he was in his ex-partners beauty salon and “left very quickly” once requested to.
Regarding the smashed window at his ex-partners house, Mr de Maid said the incident was “unintentional and reckless,” and that his client would accept compensation charges.
Jeanne was given a four-month prison sentence at Cardiff Magistrates Court today by Magistrate Jonathan Robert, after pleading guilty to harassment and stalking. His sentence was reduced from six-months because to his “emotional state.”
He will not be able to make direct or indirect contact with the claimant and will not be allowed within two-hundred metres of her house. Jeanne will not be allowed on Harris Road, where the claimant works.
He was ordered to pay £50 in damages for the broken glass at the claimants house, and £150 “for the emotional pain” he had caused to the claimant.
