Obsessed ex set up camera in woman's wardrobe and hid a tracker on her car

MAN STRUGGLED TO ACCEPT RELATIONSHIP WAS OVER

- By MARK NAYLOR

AN obsessed stalker set up a secret camera in his ex-girlfriend’s bedroom wardrobe so that he could “view and spy on her” after she finished their rapidly deteriorating relationship.

He also hid a telltale tracker device inside her car as another sneaky way of keeping close tabs on where she was going, Hull Crown Court heard.

Mark Richardson, 57, formerly of Skidby, near Cottingham, but recently of Carlton, near Goole, admitted stalking the woman at Withernsea during 2022. He pleaded guilty on the first day of a scheduled trial.

Jazmine Lee, prosecuting, said that Richardson and the woman met online in January 2019 and, at the beginning of their relationship, everything seemed fine between them and he was kind, caring and treated her well.

After 18 months, things deteriorated and the woman decided to end their relationship in early 2022. Despite this, he carried on living at her home and he came and went as he pleased. Richardson struggled to accept the situation and this made the living environment difficult and uncomfortable for her.