Longer jail term for man who carried out ‘campaign of harassment’

A THUG who subjected his former partner to a "campaign of harassment" and left her feeling "defeated and hopeless" has had his prison sentence increased at the Court of Appeal.

- CALLUM PARKE

Jordan Crewe, 27, of Trecenydd, Caerphilly, was jailed for two years in February after admitting harassment, controlling or coercive behaviour, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and intentional strangulation.

The Solicitor General referred Crewe's sentence to the Court of Appeal as “unduly lenient", with barristers telling a hearing in London that his offending included secretly activating a tracker on his victim's phone, biting her face and sending her “degrading” communications.

On May 15, three senior judges increased Crewe's sentence to one of two years and 10 months.

Lord Justice Stuart-Smith, sitting with Mr Justice Goose and Mrs Justice Eady, said Crewe's victim claimed she had been diagnosed with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks due to the offending, and described herself as “a shell of the person she used to be”.