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Violent former Leeds partner is jailed
A man who left his former partner a “bag of nerves” after constantly harassing her and accusing her of seeing someone else has been jailed for 12 months.
Alwyn Lightowler, 42, also spent hours spying on his ex-girlfriend from a balcony over looking her home.
He harassed Victoria Slater outside her property and outside a school when she went to collect her children.
Leeds Crown Court heard Lightowler bit off part a man’s ear for “getting familiar” with Miss Slater.
Lightowler was given a suspended sentence for the offence but his relationship with Miss Slater ended as a result of the attack.
In November last year, Lightowler waited outside the school and followed her as she made her way home with her two children.
Duncan Ritchie, prosecuting, said he asked to talk to her but she told him to leave her alone.
The next day he turned up at her house and banged on the door. During the next few days he was seen on the seventh floor balcony of his friend’s flat at Cottingley Heights, Cottingley, pictured, looking down on her house. On some occasions he shouted abuse out of the window at her.
On November 22 he returned to her home and wrongly accused her of sleeping with another man.
Miss Slater was too afraid to stay at her home but when she returned he approached her in the street again.
Mr Ritchie said she was left “shaking with fear” when he pulled at her sleeve. After the incident she arranged for security grilles to be put up over her windows.
Later that evening her called her mobile phone and hurled abuse at her. Police arrested him but he continued to spy on her from his friend’s flat after he was released.
He approached Miss Slater on November 27 when she was with her children after he had been drinking. He was arrested by a police officer who was waiting by her house.
Lightowler, of Springbank Road, Gildersome, was found guilty of harassment and breaching a suspended sentence after a trial before magistrates.
The court heard he has previous convictions for burglary, criminal damage, wounding, rioting, threatening behaviour, possessing an offensive weapon and drugs offences.
Carla Abrantes-Stanworth, for Lightowler, said Lightowler left home at 14 and spent the next 20 years homeless and addicted to heroin. Judge Scott Wolstenholme made Lightowler the subject of a restraining order. He is banned from approaching her or going within 100 yards of her address or her children’s school.
He also must not enter Cottingley Heights. The judge told him: “That is designed to provide her with some piece of mind and protection.”
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