Controlling bully installed cameras to monitor his girlfriend's comings and goings

Controlling boyfriend Andrew Robson

- By MARK NAYLOR

A CONTROLLING bully made his girlfriend's life a “misery” during a two-year “campaign of domestic abuse” involving a series of determined attempts to “humiliate and degrade” her.

Obsessed and aggressive Andrew Robson installed cameras to “monitor her comings and goings” and he also became violent towards the “terrified” woman.

He taunted her by telling her that if he killed her, he would know how to bury her so that she would not be found, Hull Crown Court heard.

Robson, 37, of Rutherglen Drive, off Holderness Drive, east Hull, admitted using controlling and coercive behaviour between March 4, 2023 and April 11 this year.

He also admitted two offences of assaulting the woman, causing actual bodily harm. He pleaded guilty on the day of a scheduled trial.

Gabrielle Coates, prosecuting, said that Robson and the woman were in a relationship for about three years.

“The relationship was initially happy but, sadly, it didn’t last for long,” said Miss Coates. “He began to become jealous and possessive.”

Robson started treating the woman differently when they went to a rugby match and he saw her ex-boyfriend. He told her: “Why don’t you go and see him?” His behaviour became more controlling and he monitored her mobile phone.

He changed her passwords and held the phone above his head so that she could not reach it. They never actually lived together but Robson installed a doorbell camera at her home to “monitor her comings and goings”.