Pembroke man ignored ex restraining order in Newport
However, he breached the order several times, and was later sentenced to eight months, suspended for 18 months, for again breaching the restraining order.
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Mr Evans, prosecuting, told Cardiff Crown Court Harrison and the victim had been in a relationship for around three years, but this ended after the defendant assaulted her.
Despite being banned from contacting his ex-partner, Harrison sent her messages on Facebook. These included him asking: 'Are you okay?' and 'Can you speak?'.
He also sent a series of 21 emails to the victim using an account in the name of 'Dave Smith'.
Harrison was further accused of messaging her on Forever and Ever. Some of these messages related to his own health issues, whilst other messages read: 'I'm just struggling to let you go' and 'I did bad things. Totally out of it. I'm not a monster. Anyway how are you feeling?'.
'By constantly reminding her of his existence, he's trying to control her,' said Mr Evans.
In a statement read out in court by the prosecutor, the victim said Harrison emotionally manipulated her from the outset of their relationship in 2022.
'I keep replaying in my mind so many scenarios,' she said. 'I struggle to sleep at night.
'Sadly even when help is in place, he still chose to do what he did.'
She also told the police that she had to move house to try and avoid the defendant.
Dean Harrison was described as making his ex-partner's life "a misery". (Image: Gwent Police)
Harrison, who had 15 previous convictions for 21 offences, pleaded guilty to three offences of breaching a restraining order in Newport, Gwent.
He entered a basis of plea - which was not accepted by the prosecution - that he called her on Facebook in response to a distressing message from her, that she had responded to the emails, and arranged to meet after the messages on Forever and Ever.
'He understands the relationship with [the victim] is over,' said Mr Williams, mitigating.
He added the defendant now accepted he was an alcoholic.
'He was in such a haze of alcoholism and was at such a low ebb he wasn't making good decisions,' he said.
'When he's not drinking, there's a very different side to him.
'Ultimately he understands there is only one person who can resolve these things, and that's him.'
Sentencing Harrison, Judge Simon Mills said: 'It was a restraining order you had no intention of obeying. You have been back before the courts time and time again. You have breached it repeatedly.
'You went to a lot of effort to make this contact with her.
'I consider there is a real risk that you're going to act in this way again.
'For an extended period of time you made [the victim's] life a misery.'
He jailed Harrison for 15 months for the restraining order breaches, and activated the full eight months of his suspended sentence – to run consecutively.
He also granted the victim a new five-year restraining order.
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