A 15-year-old boy has been accused of raping a woman in a nightclub toilet. Police are investigating reports of a woman being raped inside a toilet cubicle at Bloom in Manchester in the early hours of Wednesday morning (June 29).
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A serving prisoner sent ‘hundreds’ of menacing and threatening videos to his ex from his cell in a sick stalking campaign. Jonathan Hardman, 35, acquired a phone whilst serving time in HMP Forest Bank for an assault on another prisoner, and began bombarding his former partner with messages and videos.
In one three-and-a-half minute video sent as a ‘repercussion’ for the woman going shopping, he said: “It’s not hard for me to do what I have done the other day to get your attention. You little f****** valve. You deserve a good f******** battering, girl. You are a vindictive little slag, like your little girls.”
Prosecutor Phillip Hall told Manchester Crown Court that in the video Hardman displayed ‘menacing and unhinged’ behaviour, and was mocking and taunting her, as well as being abusive towards her and her children.
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In another video played to the court, the woman had taken a screen recording of a FaceTime call she’d had with Hardman, during which he was topless, was 'frothing at the mouth' and hit himself in the face. When she showed it to the police officer upon reporting the matters, she said: “This is what I’m scared of.”
The court heard that the woman had not provided a statement in support of the prosecution, but Hardman pleaded guilty to offences of stalking involving serious harm and distress, possession of a mobile phone whilst in prison and unauthorised use of a mobile phone in prison. He was today (June 9) jailed for seven-and-a-half years with an extended licence period of four years.
Opening the case, Mr Hall said the couple had been in a relationship for three years, and when it first started it was a ‘dream’ and
A 15-year-old boy has been accused of raping a woman in a nightclub toilet. Police are investigating reports of a woman being raped inside a toilet cubicle at Bloom in Manchester in the early hours of Wednesday morning (June 29).
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