Not so smart phone! Estranged husband stalks his wife by 盗聴 her car with an iPhone but is caught when it RINGS because he forgot to put it on silent?

  • Rachel Harvey was 追跡するd and 悩ますd by Kevin Gallagher over seven months
  • He?砲撃するd her with images of his 私的な and photographs of her sleeping
  • The 39-year-old hid phone under her bonnet which was 設立する by car mechanics?
  • Gallagher, from Urmston, Greater Manchester, was given a 一時停止するd 宣告,判決

Kevin Gallagher arriving at Manchester Magistrates' Court (pictured)

Kevin Gallagher arriving at Manchester 治安判事s' 法廷,裁判所 (pictured)

An estranged husband who was stalking his wife was caught out after a phone he'd left in her car to 跡をつける her movements rang after he'd forgotten to put it on silent.

Mother-of-four Rachel Harvey was 追跡するd and 悩ますd by Kevin Gallagher for seven months after she ended their six-year marriage over his controlling behaviour.

Gallagher, 39, who runs a 所有物/資産/財産 管理/経営 会社/堅い, 砲撃するd Ms Harvey with text messages, lurid images of his 私的な parts and photographs of her sleeping.

He even tried to 跡をつける his estranged wife's movements by hiding an iPhone under the bonnet of her car - only for it to begin (犯罪の)一味ing as she went to the shops.

調査s 明らかにする/漏らすd Gallagher from Urmston, Greater Manchester, had been using an iPad to 跡をつける the iPhone so he could follow and keep h is wife under 監視.

At Manchester 治安判事s' 法廷,裁判所, an emotion-告発(する),告訴(する)/料金d 声明 was read out on に代わって of Ms Harvey.

一方/合間, Gallagher wept in the ドッキングする/減らす/ドックに入れる as he 認める stalking - yet 避けるd 刑務所,拘置所 with a 20 weeks 刑務所,拘置所 宣告,判決 一時停止するd for two years.

Ms Harvey, 37, said: 'I just feel empty inside, em pty of emotion, empty of 涙/ほころびs, of 尊敬(する)・点 for myself and empty of feeling. I don't have a life - I just 存在する.

'People often comment about how strong I am 存在, but I 同意しない. 'I'm not strong, I've just learnt to adjust to what has happened to me.

I'm 対処するing and 生き残るing with each day as it comes.?I have four amazing children who have helped me get through each and every day.

Kevin Gallagher
Rachel Harvey

Mother-of-four Rachel Harvey (shown 権利) was 追跡するd and 悩ますd by Kevin Gallagher (left) for seven months after she ended their six-year marriage over his controlling behaviour

'There are many times I've cried uncontrollably and been at an all time low but having them around me, 同様に as family and friends, is the only way I am able to make it through the day.

'I feel 憎悪, 怒り/怒る, 混乱 and 憤慨 に向かって Kevin for 扱う/治療するing me the way he has and for making me feel like this.'

The couple, who met in 2007 had married in three years later, had a volatile marriage.

Ms Harvey said her husband would 引き裂く her 着せる/賦与するs from her, punch her in the ribs and gave her a 黒人/ボイコット 注目する,もくろむ.

He would 繰り返して 需要・要求する to know who she was with and where she was going until she stopped going out with friends.

They 分裂(する) up in June 2016 after he went out to work and he failed to return home.

Gallagher wept in the dock as he admitted stalking - yet avoided jail with a 20 weeks jail sentence suspended for two years

Gallagher wept in the ドッキングする/減らす/ドックに入れる as he 認める stalking - yet 避けるd 刑務所,拘置所 with a 20 weeks 刑務所,拘置所 宣告,判決 一時停止するd for two years

In her 声明, Ms Harvey 追加するd: 'Nothing could have 用意が出来ている me for the way he has behaved and the 活動/戦闘s he has taken since we have separated.

'I have gone from a strong, 確信して woman to someone who is afraid to leave the house - yet 脅すd to be in my own home.

'My family and I have felt very 攻撃を受けやすい and many times felt 脅迫してさせるd by Kevin. I 恐れる the next knock at the door, wondering if it's him.

'I'm always looking over my shoulder, I'm anxious in work thinking is he coming in here again.

'I'm nervous if I hear an 予期しない noise, my heart 沈むs when the phone (犯罪の)一味s or a text message comes through. I'm a 爆撃する of my former self.

'My health has 苦しむd as a result of Kevin's 活動/戦闘s and I have at times been off work 診断するd with 強調する/ストレス and 苦悩.'??

The iPhone was discovered on December 28 last year when Ms Harvey's eldest child Morgan, 18, took the family car to a 地元の garage.

'They heard a phone (犯罪の)一味ing but they could not find where the noise was coming from,' said 検察官,検事 Eileen Rogers. 'The ringtone did not match any of the occupants in the car.

'Police were 接触するd and 調査/捜査するd the contents of the phone, the messages and they went to speak to Gallagher.

'Another 黒人/ボイコット iPhone was 設立する 隠すd in a sock and these phones the police discovered were used by Mr Gallagher to 跡をつける his partner and her daughter when they travelled in the car and he would turn up at the 発生地 where he knew she was,' 追加するd the 検察官,検事.?

Gallagher had 前科s for 暴力/激しさ 含むing ありふれた 強襲,強姦 on Morgan last December which resulted in her getting a 抑制するing order against him.?

He should have been 宣告,判決d last month but did a 走者 as the 事例/患者 was about to called on.

He was ordered to 支払う/賃金 £200 in costs and 割増し料金s and was 問題/発行するd with a ten year 抑制するing order banning him from making 接触する with his wife.?

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