She used the police against him
For 18 months after they separated, a man in Cheshire was the target of a campaign by his former partner. She sent him around 500 abusive emails and messages. She kept going after his solicitors wrote asking her to stop.
She didn’t stop at him. She went after his new partner on social media, sometimes with threats, and contacted the new partner’s employer with lies meant to damage her career. When she saw the two of them out in public, she photographed them and sent the pictures back with derogatory comments.
Then she turned to the police. She anonymously gave Crimestoppers false information, and he was stopped by officers who believed he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He wasn’t. She also told the couple that officers would be monitoring their movements. That wasn’t true either.
She knew how all of that would land, because she was a police inspector.
It was reported in December 2023 and she was arrested. She was originally charged with stalking, and the court accepted her guilty pleas to two counts of harassment. While on bail after pleading guilty, she breached her conditions within days by posting about them on social media.
In May 2026, at Liverpool Crown Court, she was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for two years. Restraining orders now stop her contacting either of them. A misconduct hearing found she would have been dismissed from the force if she hadn’t already resigned. The prosecutor called the campaign “cruel, relentless and vindictive.”
People think abuse ends when the relationship does. For a lot of men, that’s when it changes shape. The messages keep coming. The new partner becomes a target. And the systems that are meant to protect him get pointed at him instead.
A false report doesn’t need to go anywhere to do damage. It only takes one police stop for a man to start wondering who will believe him next time. When the person doing it knows exactly how those systems work, he has every reason to stay quiet.
This time, it was taken seriously and she was prosecuted. That’s how it should work. Too often it doesn’t.
This is why I write. Not because these cases are rare, but because almost nobody talks about them.
If this is happening to you, the ManKind Initiative helpline is free on 0808 800 1170, weekdays 10am to 4pm. If you’re in danger, call 999.
Source: CPS, Woman sentenced following campaign of harassment against former partner, 20 May 2026
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