AN obsessive made and sent more than 1,000 calls and messages to a woman over a nine-day period.
Paul Harrison also harassed another woman with calls and messages which were unwanted by her.
The 49-year-old was reported to the police however and later charged with two counts of harassment without violence and one of sending communication of an indecent or offensive nature/
He was sentenced at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, May 16, where magistrates ordered him to complete unpaid work in and for the benefit of the community.
The facts of the case were outlined by prosecutor Michael O’Kane who the defendant pursued a course of conduct which amounted to the harassment of the first victim between September 16 and November 16 last year.
Harrison, according to the charge he was convicted on, knew or ought to have known his actions amounted to the harassment of her in that he made and sent more than 1,000 calls, messages and voice notes to her.
A second woman was also the victim of his harassment between November 9 and November 17.
During this time, the defendant made 27 unwanted calls and sent nine unwanted messages to her.
A third victim received a phone call from Harrison on November 11 which was of an indecent or grossly offensive nature.
The charge states that this was ‘for the purpose of causing distress or anxiety to the recipient’.
Deputy district judge Jane Hamilton referenced that she would take the defendant’s guilty pleas into account before sentencing.
Harrison, of Pasture Lane in Longbarn, was handed a 12-month community order, including 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days and 100 hours of unpaid work.
He was also made the subject of a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting one of the victims and entering two named Warrington locations for the next two years.
In addition, the court ordered that Harrison pay costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £85 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £114.
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