A father who branded a family court judge a “vile monster” in a series of threatening messages during a nine-month online stalking campaign has been jailed for a year.
Nyron Warmington, 42, targeted Judge Alison Raeside after she barred him from contacting his daughters, calling her “odious” and posting messages referring to her home address and her own children.
Using the pseudonym “Equality for Fathers”, Warmington posted on Instagram and Facebook about “monsters working in the UK courts”, and referred to guns and violence as he threatened the judge between May 2018 and January this year.
Prosecutor Abigail Husbands said Warmington posted an image of a row of guns and wrote: “Violence should never be an option, but in the absence of justice what’s the alternative?”
At Bristol crown court yesterday, he was sentenced to a year in prison by Judge James Patrick, who said he had been embroiled in family court proceedings for several years and regularly posted online about it.
The judge added:“The tone and content of those posts changed in 2018, when you were prevented from having direct contact with your daughters by order of the court.
"From then you pursued a course of conduct which involved stalking in such a way as to cause a fear of violence... ironically, you posted a caption which read ‘A person can become so determined to destroy another person that they become blind and end up destroying themselves’ ”.
Judge Raeside, who sits in the family division in Guildford, reported Warmington to police after being told of his posts, which called her “a vile monster”.
Libia Pality, defending, said he had used the internet to “vent frustration”.
Warmington, of no fixed address but previously of Croydon, admitted stalking.
He was given a five-year restraining order not to contact the judge or make social media posts about her.
