An award-winning pub landlord is behind bars after a ‘vile’ on-line message was watched 20,000 instances on Tik Tok.
Gareth Slattery, 53, carried out a marketing campaign of abuse towards his former companion — branding her a ‘racist and a gold digger’.
Slattery, from Barry, Wales, additionally accused her of giving him a sexually transmitted illness throughout a torrent of abuse after their eight-month relationship ended.
Abigail Jackson, prosecuting, mentioned: ‘He messaged her, “I would love you to know you’re a TikTok sensation.”
The court docket was advised one Tik Tok put up concentrating on the sufferer had attracted 20,000 views.
Slattery appealed the 16-week jail sentence he was given in September, however his enchantment was dismissed by a choose who advised him he was the architect of his personal downfall.
Welsh landlord Gareth Slattery, 53, misplaced his enchantment after being sentenced to 16 weeks in jail for stalking and harassing his ex-girlfriend
Slattery had bombarded his ex with undesirable messages and turned up at her office, her dwelling and solicitors’ workplace
He owns the Butterfly Collector pub in Barry, South Wales, which gained SME Nationwide Enterprise Awards Pub of the Yr in 2019.
He was discovered responsible of harassment following a trial at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court docket, however tried to overturn the sentence at Cardiff Crown Court docket.
Slattery had bombarded his ex with undesirable messages and turned up at her office, her dwelling and solicitors’ workplace.
Within the TikTok video, he accused his former companion of being a narcissist and abuser.
He mentioned: ‘I am a 53-year-old sufferer of home violence. As a male sufferer I’m not heard… that is what you may have finished to me.’
The magistrates court docket heard the harassment occurred between August and September final yr.
District Choose Stephen Harmes mentioned Slattery, who has earlier convictions of harassment and breaching a restraining order, tried to assert he was a sufferer of abuse however in actuality he abused his sufferer in a ‘vile method’.
Prosecutor Georgia Donohue mentioned the now eliminated video which tagged the sufferer was posted on-line on August 23, 2021, earlier than he confirmed up at her office a day later.
Slattery owns the award-winning Butterfly Collector pub in Barry, south Wales
‘He has introduced his current state of affairs upon himself,’ Choose Paul Hobson mentioned at Cardiff Crown Court docket
Ms Donohue mentioned Slattery stood outdoors her workplace and known as her on the cellphone, saying: ‘I am not going to come back wherever close to you. I do not need any extra herpes and chlamydia.’
The court docket heard the sufferer visited her solicitor the next day to hunt recommendation when she heard Slattery shouting: ‘You piece of s***. You piece of s***.’
Ms Donohue mentioned: ‘She noticed the defendant standing there. She knew the feedback have been geared toward her as there was nobody else within the space.’
The court docket heard the sufferer additionally heard her ex shouting about herpes whereas she was in her bed room on August 26.
The following day she noticed him on her strategy to Tesco when she requested: ‘Please do not speak to me, I am not allowed to speak to you.’
However he shouted that the sufferer ‘has herpes’ which the decision handler heard whereas she was on the cellphone to 999.
Slattery was convicted of harassing with out violence after a trial and was sentenced to 16 weeks in jail, ordered to pay the sufferer £500 compensation and handed a 5 yr restraining order, however appealed the choice
Aled Owen, representing Slattery, advised the magistrates court docket on the time of sentencing that 4 folks on the pub might lose their jobs if he was despatched into custody.
Choose Harmes concluded on the magistrates court docket: ‘I discover he did got down to make her life a distress. It was fairly calculated and deliberate.’
‘This was as unhealthy because it will get by way of harassment. You’re a confirmed harasser and this was an terrible case.’
Slattery was convicted of harassing with out violence after a trial and was sentenced to 16 weeks in jail, ordered to pay the sufferer £500 compensation and handed a 5 yr restraining order, however appealed the choice.
Ieuan Rees, representing Slattery, advised Cardiff Crown Court docket on the enchantment: ‘There have been no overt threats of violence or something of that nature.’
His barrister mentioned: ‘He runs a pub, it is a micro pub and the turnover is not nice however through the fortnight he has been in custody taking are down by a minimum of 25 per cent.
‘It will have a knock on impact on his 4 workers.’
Mr Rees added: ‘He is in a brand new relationship and your honour can have seen a letter from her, she sits behind the court docket.
‘She is the truth is a headmistress in Penarth and he or she’s doing her greatest in the mean time to hold out her personal duties and help him with protecting the pub operating.’
Choose Paul Hobson mentioned: ‘Mr Slattery posted quite a lot of defamatory movies about her on-line on his TikTok account.
‘He’s a person with a completely warped angle to problems with this type.’
‘He has introduced his current state of affairs upon himself.’
