Specsavers assistant faces jail for sending ex-boyfriend 1,000 texts begging him to just take her back again

A girl who drove her ex-boyfriend to the brink of suicide by spamming him with more than 1,000 textual content messages begging him to acquire her back could confront jail.

Michelle Felton, 28, who performs for Specsavers, was so infatuated with Ryan Harley she rang or messaged him up to 150 situations each day following he broke up with her.

Felton would talk to her ex: ‘Why would not you talk to me? I enjoy you. Are we assembly tonight? Are we going out?’ ahead of accusing him of cheating in his driving check when he failed to reply.

Mr Harley, who life with his mother in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire ultimately called in law enforcement when Felton commenced leaving presents on his doorstep.

Optician’s assistant Michelle Felton despatched her ex-boyfriend in excess of 1,000 messages begging him to get her back 

A court listened to Felton despatched Ryan Harley up to 150 messages a working day after they broke up in February

He explained to officers ‘I just want it to go away and for it all to prevent. I just really feel like ending it all’.

Mr Harley accused Felton of controlling him through their 21-month relationship.

At Chester Magistrates Court, Felton admitted harassment after her not responsible plea to coercive conduct was approved by prosecutors. 

She was bailed for sentencing till subsequent 12 months but could encounter up to 6 months guiding bars.

The few started courting in Could 2020 but split up in February this year just after an argument in which Mr Harley accidentally broke Felton’s finger and she kicked him in the groin.

Pass up Lynne Sayers, prosecuting, reported: ‘He says it was an incident and mentioned it occurred although he had to drive her absent right after remaining kicked in the groin space. There was a formal statement built in relation to the subject but the CPS made the decision not to pursue that and the romance soured.

‘There was then a regular bombardment, with as several as 100 to 150 skipped phone calls in a working day in excess of one 11 working day interval to Ryan. There ended up basically hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of messages amongst 15 and 26 February this calendar year.

‘There is a person in which he replies to the message “Are we nonetheless likely out?” in which he suggests he won’t want to keep on the partnership. But she continues and carries on. As she goes on, he states “This has turn into poisonous. Just leave me. I will need a couple of weeks” and did not reply.

‘But a ton of the messages are despatched about him allegedly dishonest on his driving test. She went on and gave him a tough time about that. Then she explained, “No, I am very proud of you. When are we likely to fulfill?”

Felton could facial area up to 6 months in jail when she is sentenced up coming calendar year after admitting to harassment 

‘There had been a whole lot of quite enjoy form messages, with like hearts, but they were perpetual. You can find a change of tone at some level but the vast majority are like kind messages, and “Why won’t you discuss to me?”

‘About accusing him of cheating she reported, “I did not genuinely signify it.” 

‘He states, “How do you assume me to come to feel when you simply call me a cheat?”

‘She just ongoing on in the vein. How a great deal she enjoys him. She tells him that numerous moments saying: “Are we meeting tonight?”, “Are we likely out?”, she asks about the pet dog.

‘She contacted him at all periods of the working day. He just wished it to go absent and for it all to halt. The results on this perpetual messaging on him have been significant.

‘In an job interview she stated he did not make it very clear that the romance had finished. She approved sending the messages and acknowledged the missed calls. But she explained it was just since she cared for him as he experienced anxiety and despair challenges.

‘It is clear that the defendant has not meant to go about on function maximizing panic and I are not able to say there was a diploma of scheduling or sophistication – she may well have been merely pouring out her feelings.

‘But it is an great amount of money of messages and phone calls so it triggered major distress to Ryan. It has been a very upsetting situation on each sides. It’s not denied that the defendant has had a tricky time but the effect on the sufferer has been very sizeable.’

In mitigation, Felton’s attorney Peter Barnett said: ‘It is conceded that via her infatuation with him she sent voluminous text messages and built phone calls. But he was not significantly threatened and they were being primarily lovey dovey messages.’

Referring to the working day of their crack up, Mr Barnett claimed: ‘She experienced been at function and gone to bingo with her mom and it had been agreed that she would remain at his residence afterwards that evening.

‘They woke up in the morning whereupon they experienced an argument. He was seeing films on his cellphone and she suggests she wants to spend time with him. She tries to give him a hug but he suggests he has had more than enough.

‘During the argument he accepts that he struck her with a sock which we say was wound up so that it was like a rope. She accepts that she has kicked him in the groin space for the reason that he was leading to agony.

‘He then grabs her correct hand and begins to bend and twist her tiny finger until finally it snaps. He maintains that she grabbed him close to the neck but she states she was just sitting up. Thereafter his mom enters the room.

‘She had to choose one thirty day period off from do the job, her finger was swollen and in soreness and she was using potent pain treatment. Out of guilt he used the up coming five days with her and then stopped observing her and she doesn’t know why – she is infatuated with him.

‘We would post that he just built this allegation that he was influenced by her behaviour mainly because he was making an attempt to keep away from prosecution for GBH [grievous bodily harm].’

JPs adjourned the circumstance for stories and informed Felton to look at Warrington Magistrates Courtroom on January 6 for sentencing. Her bail circumstances forbid her from speaking to Ryan Harley or his mother Jayne.

Chairman of the bench Ian Williams claimed: ‘We have viewed as the matter and are using into account the proof presented on behalf of the prosecution and in particular the duration and extent of the text messages and cellphone calls taking put in excess of the period of time.

‘Also, we have taken into consideration what was mentioned by Mr Barnett. We sense that probation stories are necessary.’