A stalker drove a grandmother to consider suicide and move home, a court heard.

Monday, 20 January 2025 14:50

By Megi Rychlikova

The woman told police Anthony John Fowler, 55, had “shattered” her trust in people by the way he behaved towards her and that she now lives in an area away from the family she loves.

Kathryn Walters, prosecuting, said Fowler told the grandmother: “You are really not going to like what happens next”.

“This threat terrified me,” the woman told police. “I found his behaviour frightening. I don’t feel safe in my own house.”

She asked her grown-up son to live with her. She later sold her house and moved away from the area.

Fowler and the grandmother had been in a relationship for 13 years until it broke up in October 2023.

“It’s been a living hell with him,” she said in a personal statement. “That has been because of someone I utterly trusted and loved.”

She said she had had “very dark thoughts about ending my life” and that the domestic abuse charity IDAS, which supported and helped her, had recommended she take specialist counselling.

“It is quite impossible to put into words how this has affected me, emotionally and my mental and physical well-being,” she said.

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