'Dangerous' stalker told ex he would 'break every bone in her body' and take her child
Teasdale left a voicemail for his victim which read: "Your house is getting lit off today and your car and you." After turning up at his ex-girlfriend's house, he left another voicemail saying: "I will stamp all over your head tomorrow when I turn up at your house. I will take ***** and I will boot you all over."
Teesside Crown Court has heard that a restraining order was in place to protect the victim, after Teasdale was convicted of sending her threatening communications in 2023. He broke the order last year, when police found him hiding upstairs in his former partner's home.
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The two were initially in a happy relationship, which the victim said was "amazing" at the beginning. But after they split up, Teasdale refused to accept the court order against him.
On May 5 he turned up at the woman's home, as she hid inside with her child. He shouted through the letterbox and peered through windows before going to the back of her house. The victim called the police but Teasdale fled when he heard sirens nearby.
Over the next 24 days, he left sinister voicemails threatening to harm her and her family. On May 8, he ranted into her messaging bank: "You have two options - leave the area or get your kids took."
A few days later his voicemail read: "Nice little status about me on Facebook there. I'm going to break every bone in your body."
In other messages Teasdale said he was going "to cut" his victim's face and "stamp on" her child. When he left a voicemail saying that he knew she "had been going to the gym," the victim became scared he was watching her and she left her home.
In a statement read out to the court on Tuesday, the victim said that she "felt let down by the system. He has shown no regard for the restraining order. I can't sit out in my back garden for fear he will turn up."
Teasdale denied stalking his former partner, but was convicted by a jury, after standing trial. He admitted breaching the restraining order. He has previous convictions for robbery, aggravated vehicle-taking and harassing a different ex-partner.
In mitigation, Tom Bennett told the court that the couple were still together in 2023, when Teasdale sent her threatening messages. The defence barrister said that his client suffers from PTSD, "and this does impact on how someone reacts in situations. That's not a defence to what he has done, but personal mitigation."
But Judge Tom Mitchell told Teasdale: "The reality is that you have no regard for court orders or for the rule of law. There is little controlling you, other than imprisoning you.
"I think that you are a dangerous man to your partners. I appreciate you may have some degree of PTSD but what you have been doing, you have been doing for a very long time. I don't think that mitigates much at all."
Teasdale, of Hartington Road in Stockton, was jailed for four-years. He will serve two-thirds of his sentence before he is eligible to be released.
"I have now set the bar at four-years," Judge Mitchell told him, "if you breach that restraining order again, you can expect sentences north of that."
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