Sheer terror as girl’s stalker ex factors gun at her in harrowing CCTV footage
The terrifying second a lady was ambushed by her stalker ex-boyfriend earlier than being held hostage at gunpoint for eight hours was caught on her residence’s CCTV.
Ever since, Rhianon Bragg has been dwelling “on a countdown,” dreading the second the “Jekyll and Hyde” might be free to roam the streets after being locked up for four-and-a-half years. Now, it seems that second is getting nearer as Gareth Wyn Jones is about to be launched inside in a matter of weeks – regardless of a parole board panel ruling it unsafe.
Ms Bragg branded the choice “absolute madness.” She ended her relationship together with her twisted attacker in April 2019, however the 57-year-old refused to just accept it was over. He stalked her, despatched messages and turned up at her residence and was arrested thrice. He had his legally held weapons taken away, however no additional motion was taken and his firearms got again.
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But occasions culminated when Jones ambushed Ms Bragg as she returned to her rural farmhouse in North Wales and saved her towards her will in a barn in a single day on August 2019.
The mum-of-four advised North Wales Live: “As I got out of the car, he suddenly jumped out and bang, right in front of me, in his camouflage trousers and jacket and his black leather shooting gloves, he had the barrel of the gun in my chest.
“I screamed in shock, and I remember him laughing. The look in his eyes was furious. I asked him to put the gun down and he said no.
“I knew straight away there was nothing I could do, I was completely out of control.”
Five hours into the ordeal, her captor left the barn and compelled Ms Bragg to drive to his residence.
“He was very Jekyll and Hyde, however I’d learnt to change my behaviour,” she mentioned.
“As I was getting in the car, he turned around and told me in Welsh that he loved me.
“And that was when I felt the shotgun belt he was wearing under his jacket.”
The following morning, Ms Bragg managed to persuade Jones to permit her to go to a physician’s appointment from the place she known as the police and Jones was arrested outdoors.
He admitted prices of stalking, false imprisonment, making a menace to kill and a shotgun cost and was jailed for four-and-a-half years- with an prolonged licence interval of 5 years, formally making it a nine-and-a-half 12 months sentence.
(Image: Ian Cooper/North Wales Live)
He was additionally made the topic of a ten 12 months restraining order, stopping him from contacting Ms Bragg or going inside 800 metres of her residence.
This month, a Parole Board panel discovered that it could not be protected to launch him and that he had by no means accepted culpability for his crimes, however he’s due for automated launch in February.
The former mechanic will spend 5 years on licence when he’s launched from jail, which means he might be managed by probation employees with the possibility of being recalled to jail if he commits additional crimes.
(Image: Ian Cooper/North Wales Live)
Ms Bragg, from Gwynedd, advised the PA information company: “I cannot conceive how anything other than a completely blinkered, unjoined up, broken justice system, would release an offender that it had just classed as too high risk to release. It’s mind-blowing, absolute madness – what will they say to his next victims? It’s not like they’re pretending he won’t reoffend.”
A abstract of the Parole Board panel’s choice on Jones mentioned that he had held “traditional beliefs around gender roles in relationships and evidenced jealousy and a sense of entitlement”, whereas struggling to handle battle. It discovered that he noticed asking for assist as an indication of weak spot, and famous that there have been emotional and psychological well being difficulties on this case.
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A launch plan the place Jones would dwell in designated lodging with strict limits on his contacts, actions and actions was not deemed strong sufficient. The panel concluded: “After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in custody and the evidence presented in the dossier, the panel was not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public.”
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