The affair turned ugly, finally resulting in a person bombarding his former lover with texts, banging on the door of her house, and leaving a word for her husband, a court docket heard.
James Nielson left a word for his former lover’s husband exposing their affair, a court docket heard. (Picture: Merseyside Police)
A 12-year affair turned ugly, finally resulting in a person bombarding his former lover with texts, banging on her door and demanding paternity assessments. James Nielson, 41, stalked his former flame for 3 weeks saying he needed DNA assessments to find out the paternity of two of her three kids, whom she had given delivery to throughout the course of their on-off relationship, the court docket heard.
Nielson’s relentless marketing campaign noticed him flip up on the sufferer’s house late at evening and bang on the door, and depart a word for her husband exposing the affair, Liverpool Echo reviews. At Liverpool Crown Court docket on Tuesday (March 3), prosecutor Lahraib Iqbal mentioned Nielson and the girl had recognized one another for 15 years. She married her husband in 2013, however continued an “on-off affair” with Nielson, blocking his quantity throughout the “off” intervals, the court docket was informed. On December 4 final yr, she woke as much as discover 37 messages from Nielson on her cellphone and when she left the home to go to work that morning, she seen he was following her.
The lady informed Nielson to depart her be and continued on her means, however when she started working at 8.40am, he approached her once more. He solely went away when he was challenged by a passer-by.
At 11.30pm that evening, the sufferer was at house in Liverpool along with her husband and kids when Nielson began banging on her door, the court docket heard.
He posted a word revealing the affair and left the property, solely to return in his automobile at 3am and begin honking his horn.
Ms Iqbal mentioned: “At 10.30am (December 5) the defendant was noticed sat exterior the handle, beeping his horn and waving at (the sufferer) from his automobile.”
On December 8 at round 6.20am, the girl left her home once more for work and was as soon as extra approached by Nielson.
The sufferer informed Nielson to “go away”, bought into her automobile and began to drive in the direction of Crosby. However she was tailed by Nielson in his black Volkswagen Golf, inflicting her to tug over to keep away from crashing into one other automobile.
Ms Iqbal informed the court docket that Nielson went round to the entrance of her automobile and “along with his fists started to bang on the bonnet of her automobile”. The lady known as the police.
Nielson, from Bootle, pleaded responsible to stalking, driving whereas disqualified, and driving with no licence. He additionally admitted two breaches of a 12-month suspended sentence he obtained in September 2025 for caring with the availability of hashish and producing hashish.
The breaches got here within the type of the stalking and driving offences, and in failing to observe his curfew between December 1 and December 8, 2025.
Olivia Bell, defending, mentioned: “I might urge the court docket to just accept his regret is real. He regrets any misery induced to (the girl). I by no means search to minimise his behaviour however merely present context for his contacting the complainant.
“The defendant and complainant had been in an on-off affair for 12 years, throughout which period the complainant gave delivery to 3 kids, and it is the defendant’s case that he questions the paternity of two of those kids.
“Although his contact was by no means applicable, I solely elevate it to elucidate why the defendant contacted the sufferer on a number of events.”
She mentioned: “There have been no threats of violence. Merely this was a person who struggled to lose what he known as the love of his life following as 12-year affair and needed to hunt details about the paternity of the youngsters.”
Nielson has 11 earlier convictions for 21 offences, together with a number of driving offences. Sentencing Nielson, Decide Louise Brandon mentioned: “It is fairly clear the concern and misery you induced has had a bodily and emotional affect on (the sufferer).
“It is affected how she performed her daily actions. She has incurred bills and she or he has described the affect these actions have had on her life.
“I am fairly happy that the stalking is a excessive culpability offence. This was a persistent motion over an extended interval. You adopted the complainant and your behaviour was performed in a method to maximise her concern and misery, together with turning up at her household house.”
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She sentenced him to 18 weeks in jail for stalking and eight weeks for the driving offences. The decide additionally activated 39 weeks of his current suspended sentence, making a complete jail sentence of 65 weeks (one yr and two months).
Decide Louise Brandon additionally banned him from driving for a complete of 115 weeks, and imposed a restraining order barring him from contacting the sufferer for seven years.
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