'Remember I have access to bullets': Leeds stalker made chilling threats during series of texts and threatening phone call

Jamie Kerr was jailed for 17 months after a court heard how he made his partner's life a misery with a barrage of abuse and threats.

Leeds Crown Court heard Kerr defied a court order not to contact the mum-of-two and sent 111 texts and made phone calls to her from a withheld number.

The victim had to be moved to a safe house over concerns for her safety during the offending in November and December last year.

Elizabeth Noble, prosecuting, said Kerr was given a restraining order in 2019 banning him from contacting the woman after he was convicted of stalking.

Kerr and the woman had been in an eight-year relationship which ended in 2016 and they have two children together.

The defendant breached the order by making 31 phone calls in which he threatened the woman and her new partner.

On another occasion her told the victim he knew her new address and said he would place an egg on her doorstep to prove it.

Further threats were made in another phone call in which he said he would put her in a body bag and petrol bomb her house.

Kerr also threatened to tie up the victim's mum and aunt.

A final call was made to her after she reported him to the police. Kerr told her he was "on the run" and ended the call by laughing at her.

Miss Noble said: "The complainant has had to be moved to a safe location."

The court heard she has suffered from anxiety as a result of the offending.

Kerr, of Simmons Court, East End Park, pleaded guilty to breach of a restraining order.

He has four previous convictions for breach of a restraining order.

Michael Walsh, mitigating, said Kerr pleaded guilty to the offence at an early stage.

"He knows that the breach is more significant and the sentence will be more significant.

Judge Christopher Batty told Kerr: "You split up with your partner four years ago and she is the mother of your children.

"You have singularly failed to let her go.

"If anything, your conduct in breaching that order increased during that period.

"At one point you told her to remember you had access to bullets.

"That can only ever have been said with an intention to cause her fear.

"She was terrified and did not know when it would end.

"You have done this all to cause her maximum distress."