'PARANOID' THUG ATTACKS MAN AFTER HEARING RUMOURS HIS PREGNANT EX-GIRLFRIEND HAS A NEW PARTNER
2019.A man known for his paranoia, Scott Thomas, aged 27, wrongly suspected his pregnant ex-partner of seeing someone else.
This led him to violently attack both of their homes after sending abusive messages via Facebook.
Thomas had been involved with the woman for approximately two years, a relationship she claims officially ended in March 2017.
However, she suggests there was possibly a brief reconciliation, as she is due to give birth to his child in just three weeks.
This information was presented at Hull Crown Court.
Following rumors that she was involved with another man, Thomas began repeatedly calling her at her workplace in a Hull restaurant.
Later that evening, he also called her a "lying cow" when she denied the accusations.
Prosecutor Fatima Zafar reported that at around 1 a.m.
on December 15, 2018, the woman was awakened at her home near Beverley Road in west Hull by the noise of Thomas's motorcycle in her backyard.
When she went outside to check, she discovered Thomas had entered her house through an unlocked back door.
He behaved aggressively, making further accusations about her relationship with the other man, and even showed her a photograph of a Lucozade bottle and a woman's legs, claiming it was evidence.
Thomas then damaged her property by punching two circular holes in a wall before leaving, stating he was going to visit the other man.
At 3am, Thomas sent the man a Facebook message saying: "Think you're clever s******* people's birds.
You man enough to come meet me now?" Thomas also tried to call the man three times, but he did not discover the message or the missed calls until waking at 6.30am.
He replied: "F*** you on about?
Just woke up.
Not s****** anyone's bird, muppet." The man, who had a friend staying, went back to sleep but was woken at 9am by "banging" at the back door.
Thomas then smashed a window at the house by throwing pieces of brick at it.
He appeared through the broken window with an object in his raised hand and said: "I'm going to stab you." The man and his friend hid upstairs as Thomas smashed another window, but left on realising the victim had called police.
Thomas then reappeared at his partner's and asked to be let in, but she refused and called police.
He mounted his motorcycle and repeatedly rammed the back door with it.
He later admitted affray and three offences of criminal damage.
Thomas had 46 previous offences on his record, including affray, criminal damage and drugs offences.
He was on licence at the time after serving a three-year prison sentence.
In a victim statement, the woman, who has two other children, said: "I feel Thomas is targeting me and is trying to make my life hell, and fear he will cause further damage to house and I fear for the safety of my children.
"I want him out of my life and wish to have no further contact with him, and will support the police in action they take." The man, who is in his early 20s, said in his statement: "I don't know why he's done this to me.
I wouldn't even think of sleeping with another man's girl.
The way he reacted to this is crazy.
He smashed the windows and threatened to stab me.
I want to move away from the area and start a clean slate." Both denied any romantic involvement.
Nigel Clive, mitigating, said it was "clearly not the case" the relationship had ended when the woman said it did.
He said they were in a "good" relationship and Thomas had attended the first scan of the baby in December.
Mr Clive said: "The defendant was sent a number of pictures.
He was given information from the grapevine which suggested to him the complainant had been with [the man] on a number of occasions.
Whether that's right or not isn't for the purpose of this court to determine." Jailing Thomas for a total of 14 months, Judge Mark Bury told him: "This is all because you appear to have been paranoid about whether [ex-partner] was in a relationship with [male complainant].
They are both denying it.
"But whether it's true or not, it doesn't matter.
If they want to have a relationship they are perfectly entitled to have one, and you should accept it, if that's true, and you should certainly accept it if they deny it.
"This was outrageous behaviour.
Quite frankly, you're lucky you're facing charges of criminal damage and affray only, but there certain aggravating features.
[She] was pregnant at the time.
"Only a custodial sentence can be justified when you take in all the totality of the offences, the fact you were on licence at the time and the fact of your previous convictions." Thomas was also made subject to a five-year restraining order.
