A STALKER postman who knocked out his ex's pensioner dad and pulled her around by the hair after refusing to leave her home has been spared jail.

David Jones of Stotfield Avenue, Warndon Villages, Worcester was also sent messages to his former partner's work colleagues about her sex life which he accepted himself were 'grossly offensive' and has since written a letter of apology ion which he expresses his disgust at his behaviour.

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The 41-year-old admitted assault occasioning actual against his ex's then 72-year-old dad, who observed the sentence at Worcester Crown Court over videolink on Wednesday.

He had also admitted common assault against his former partner after pulling her by the hair during the same incident on July 16, 2020. She was attacked after she tried to come between Jones and her father.

Jones was sentenced to a year in prison suspended for two years by Judge Nicholas Cole.

Geoffrey Dann, prosecuting, said the couple had met in November 2019 and formed a relationship and Jones came to live in her house. However, she indicated she wanted to leave the relationship in July of the following year, also asking him to leave her house after first seeking advice from her father.

Mr Dann said her father advised her that Jones could be asked to leave as he was an 'invited guest'. She told Jones she wanted him to leave her house when he returned from work at 6pm on July 16, telling Jones this initially in the absence of her father.

However, her father later arrived and told Jones 'if he didn't leave, police would be called'. Her father called police at 7pm and they said they would 'attend when they were able to'.

Her father called police again at 10pm and again they replied that they would attend when they were able to.

Both victims, father and daughter, were at this stage in the lounge and Jones 'refused to leave'. Her father again said he would call police.

"The defendant became increasingly aggressive in his tone of voice and was again asked to leave the room and the house. He said he would stay" said Mr Dann.

The prosecutor described how her father at one stage tried to reach under the defendant's arm to escort him from the house but that she warned her father to 'be careful as she was concerned how the defendant would react'.

Patrick Kelly, who represented Jones, said his client had at the time been sitting cross-legged on the floor, that the matter had been going on for four hours (as police still had not arrived) and 'tempers were frayed'.

The victim described how Jones rose quickly from a sitting position and pushed her father backwards towards the sofa as she told Jones: "Don't you dare!"

"He grabbed her hair on the left-hand side of her head and pulled her away from where she was sitting. She immediately felt pain and fell to the ground. She screamed for help and curled up in a ball on the floor" said Mr Dann.

When she got up she saw her father lying on the sofa and said Jones was on the phone to an ambulance. "She could see blood running down her father's face and she could see marks on his face" said Mr Dann.

She described her father as being 'confused and he could not remember where he had been or what was happening'. Both daughter and dad had to attend hospital, her father taken there by ambulance. Her father was later to say that Jones had 'become angry and aggressive' and 'explosively punched him'.

"He remembers the defendant coming towards him and that he might have been punched but that he then lost consciousness" said Mr Dann.

His injuries were listed as extensive bruising below his left eye, on his nose and the corner of his jaw. He also suffered a concussion. There was a cut to the side of his left eye and what the victim called 'a feeling of shock'.

He also reported dizziness, loss of concentration and loss of memory but a CT scan at hospital revealed no further injuries. 

On October 19, 2020 Jones sent an email about his ex partner's sex life to colleagues at her place of future employment which formed the basis of a stalking conviction. Jones appealed against this conviction but the appeal was rejected. An appeal against a conviction for controlling and coercive behaviour was, however, upheld.

Jones had discovered her place of work and sent an email to her employers, including to a company director, about the relationship she had had with colleagues, questioning why they would want to employ her.

A restraining order, already in place in relation to both victims, will continue. He was placed on a six month electronically tagged curfew between 9pm and 6am which runs for the next six months.

Jones was also ordered to complete the building better relationships programme (30 sessions) as well as 40 rehabilitation activity requirement days.