After being arrested for threatening to hurl acid in his former girlfriend’s face, a thug got wasted on prison brew and harassed her from behind bars.
Ross Pippin, 33, had also threatened to stab the father of her children after he began abusing her a week into their relationship.
However, the criminal—who has a history of domestic offences—kept harassing his victim by leaving menacing calls and voicemails even after he was locked up.
Newcastle Crown Court heard Pippin and his former partner met in early 2022, but the relationship soured within as he turned jealous and controlling.
In April 2022, he was jailed for 16 months for assaulting his stepfather. While in prison, he continued to contact her.
He was released at the end of May that year and continued attempting to control and threaten the woman, calling her up to 200 times a day and leaving hundreds of voicemails. By August, she’d had enough and had told him the relationship was over.
But one night, while she and her children were in bed, Pippin attended, put something through her letterbox, and ran off. Before calling her to scream down the phone, he would slit her throat.
She hid her children in a neighbour’s garden and called the police. Pippin called back the next day, begging her to drop the charges and offering to leave her alone.
Finally, it was decided that he posed too great a risk to be left in the community, and he was returned to custody.
From behind bars, he made increasingly violent threats, telling her he would ‘smash her face in’ and ‘rip her head off’, before threatening to stab someone in front of her children. He also said he would dance on her grave.
The lady stated in a victim impact statement that Pippin’s actions had “destroyed her,” leaving her with anxiety and PTSD as a result of her concerns for her children’s safety.
She told the court she was having to move house and didn’t think she would be able to get over Pippin’s abuse. She stated her belief that if she hadn’t pressed charges, she would be dead.
Pippin, 33, of no fixed address, entered a guilty plea to two charges of transmitting harmful messages and harassing someone with the intent to cause fear of violence.
The criminal, who has served three years and four months in prison, has fifty prior convictions, including ones for assault and domestic abuse. Additionally, he was granted an indefinite restraining order.
It’s time more prison guards were employed and more stringent measures were put in place.
Making menacing phone calls and producing booze from behind bars—why are all these jail guards standing by and doing nothing?
How pitiful this jail was, and that it was all happening inside their premises. Maybe it’s time to fire the jail governor and install a new leader who can handle things better.
This man should have spent far longer in prison because public safety is far more vital than his freedom. He has over fifty convictions, and it is obvious that he poses a risk to the public, particularly women.
Drugs, mobiles, and alcohol seem to get into prisons, and just out of interest, what part of this is punishment?
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