A vegan blogger with tens of thousands of online followers has been jailed for a second time for harassing his ex-girlfriend within weeks of being released.
Kyle O’Sullivan, 29, had been banned from having any contact with Catherine Kendall after admitting he harassed her after they broke up.
But weeks after his prison release he was back ringing her 50 times a day and called her a ‘f****** snake’ when he confronted her in a car park, saying she had ruined his life.
O’Sullivan of Princethorpe, Warwickshire, breached an indefinite restraining order imposed when he was jailed for 12 months in February this year, Warwick Crown Court heard.
He was initially sentenced for a string of offences against his ex-girlfriend, including telling her : I just want to hurt you so f****** badly.
‘I want to strangle you so the blood comes out of your eyes.’
In June, while on licence from his sentence, O’Sullivan pulled up in front of Miss Kendall in a Sainsbury’s car park in Coventry and demanded to know if she was sleeping with anyone else, prosecutor Charles Crinion said.
He told her he had a new girlfriend but wanted to be with her and began crying, telling her he loved her and would ring her later.
A week later she began receiving up to 50 calls a day from him and on 20 June he furiously followed her around a shop insulting her, the court heard.
O’Sullivan persuaded his ex to get into his car to talk but then drove off erratically, saying they were going to die together.
He later drove her back but continued to bombard her with texts and calls, telling her in one of them: ‘I want to kill myself and it’s all your fault.’
His barrister Amiee Parkes told the court that a car crash O’Sullivan was involved in later that day was not an attempt to take his own life. He denied making the threat.
In her impact statement Miss Kendall said she had been ‘physically and mentally tortured’ by O’Sullivan before he was jailed in February.
And when he was released in June, he published a nasty rap song about her online, the court heard.
Miss Parkes said O’Sullivan ‘fully admits’ breaching the restraining order.
She said: ‘The meeting at Sainsbury’s, he tells me, was a by-chance meeting.
‘It was six miles from where she lived, and he was not aware she had used the store that afternoon.
‘He saw her and apologised for what had happened. He accepts he should have walked away.’
But she added: ‘He has been doing well in custody. He knows now he can never have anything to do with this lady again.’
O’Sullivan was jailed for a further 16 months after he pleaded guilty to breaching the order and stalking his victim.
Judge Anthony Potter told him: ‘It is for you to decide whether you want to do something to address this obsessive strain in your personality, otherwise you will be here again and again.’
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