A prisoner has received a further two-year sentence for leaving threatening voicemails for his former partner. He made the calls on a phone at HMP Norwich.
The 27-year-old was already serving a sentence for aggravated burglary at the prison at the time.
Ipswich Crown Court heard that the relationship ended in January this year. The woman then asked prison authorities to stop him from calling her. He managed to get around the security system and left the voicemails over three days.
According to the prosecution, he told her repeatedly: “I’m going to kill you.” He also threatened to beat her at her front door.
He said he would do this as soon as he left prison. He also threatened to leak her photographs to his fellow prisoners. He called them “a bunch of weirdos and rapists”.
Prison authorities held audio recordings of the calls. Faced with this evidence, he pleaded guilty to harassment involving fear of violence. He also admitted threatening to disclose private sexual photographs.
At his sentencing hearing on 6 July, he received two years’ immediate imprisonment. He will spend half of that term in custody. The court also imposed a 10-year restraining order that bars him from contacting the woman.
In a statement read to the court, the woman described the psychological toll of the ordeal. She said she felt she would never escape him and feared that he would kill her.
Sentencing him, His Honour Judge David Wilson said the “series of vile messages” had had a devastating impact on her life.
HMP & YOI Norwich is a category B reception prison for men in the East of England. Its last full inspection took place in April 2026. That inspection rated safety, respect and preparation for release as reasonably good. It rated purposeful activity as not sufficiently good.
