Woman harassed by former boyfriend from Whitchurch
A man who threatened to stab his ex-partner's boyfriend in a row outside of a school and accused her of appearing in a sex video has been found guilty of harassment.
Giving evidence at Telford Magistrates Court, the victim said that her former partner Daniel Kinnon had approached her as she left her house with her partner to collect her children from school. She became very emotional as she told how Kinnon followed them, hurling insults.
"He was just shouting vile abuse at me," she said. She told magistrates that 38-year-old Kinnon had followed the couple along the road asking about their relationship before walking off at some traffic lights.
The victim said that Kinnon had disappeared, only to reappear outside Whitchurch Junior School shouting: "Where the hell is he? I'm going to stab him. I'm going to kill him."
The court was told that no children were present at this point.
"I was in shock and backed away from him and went round the corner to my daughter's classroom," she said. The court heard that she had five children from a previous relationship, but none with Kinnon.
"It made me feel worried because he turned up at the school. He doesn't need to be at the school. He's got no friends there, he's got no children there," she said.
Kinnon, of Chestnut Close, Whitchurch, missed the opening part of his trial which proceeded in his absence, but offered no evidence in his defence once he arrived.
Magistrates found him guilty of harassment without violence, but adjourned sentencing for the preparation of a report. The case will next be heard on July 22.
On the day of the incident Kinnon had left some jeans in a bag on the front door of the victim's house for her to sew, having claimed that her children had ripped them, his victim said. However she now believed that Kinnon had unpicked them, and that the money he had asked for them had been used to buy drugs.
The court heard that on June 16 Kinnon approached the couple as they returned home and accused his ex-partner of being in a sex video – a claim she denied.
Her partner also gave an account of the incidents, saying he wanted to keep his distance from Kinnon.
Miss Charlotte Gessey, prosecuting, read out a summary of police interviews with Kinnon in which he denied that an argument had taken place but admitted being "upset about their break up."
