Shrewsbury stalker jailed over misery campaign

Adrian Morgan, 44, of Shrewsbury, who is also known as Andy, had previously admitted two charges of stalking involving fear of violence and stalking involving serious alarm or distress.

He was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison when he appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Tuesday.

A five-year restraining order was also imposed to stop him from contacting his victim again.

Morgan, of Yockleton, who previously lived in Minsterley, subjected the woman, who the Shropshire Star has chosen not to name, to three months of stalking between March 17 and July 23.

The campaign of fear began with him leaving his home with an axe to go to the home of a man with whom he believed she was in a relationship.

He turned up unannounced at her place of work and at her parents' house, where he subjected her to a torrent of verbal abuse which culminated in him pulling up the woman's top to expose her underwear.

A few weeks later he drove into a car park and hid in a bush where he watched her attend a gym.

And the next month he followed her back from Pontesbury Cricket Club before forcing his way into her home and assaulting her.

On another occasion Morgan turned up at the woman's home where he became verbally abusive and threatened to hold a gun to her head.

He bombarded her mobile phone with calls and text messages on more than 500 occasions – including an explicit photograph of himself – and sent her three bunches of flowers.

Morgan parked in a layby and a bus stop where he knew the woman had to pass and trawled car parks in Telford and Shrewsbury looking for her.

He also got into her house while she was out and searched her underwear drawers.