A mum has told how her obsessed ex secretly fitted a GPS tracker on her car.
Victoria Miles, 46, spoke after Stuart Carless, 46, was released from jail after a 14-month sentence for stalking.
He started by bombarding her with calls and texts – including explicit images on WhatsApp – after she ended their 14-year marriage.
His obsession took a sinister turn when she received a notification from Amazon about an order for a GPS car tracker.
The message had gone to her because Carless made the mistake of ordering it using their joint bank account.
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She asked a garage to check her Mini Countryman and they removed it.
Electrician Carless was arrested and later pleaded guilty to stalking at Mold Crown Court in January.
He was released last month, leaving nurse Victoria in fear of bumping into him again.
She said: “I’m not scared of him, just of the unknown. But I do struggle.
“I have anxiety, I need sleeping tablets, I’m very isolated. Life is very hard.”
Victoria, from Prestatyn, north Wales, first met Carless, from Essex, in an online chatroom in November 2003. “Within three months he had moved in and I was pregnant with our son,” she said.
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“He was self-employed at the time and had no friends so his world completely revolved around us.”
In September 2018, feeling stifled and unhappy she finally called it a day.
Victoria moved in with a pal but days later he came over with flowers.
“I asked him to leave but he came again the next day with the post and again I asked for space.”
She soon started receiving a flurry of calls, often from withheld numbers.
Victoria said: “It was constant and I knew it was him from the start. If I wasn’t getting a phone call, it’d be verification codes from WhatsApp as he tried to hack into my account. I’d get four or five a day.
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“He seemed completely fixated on the idea that I was on WhatsApp chatting to other men.”
Next he started following her.
She said: “Soon after I’d blocked the calls, I saw him out and about. I would drive to Tesco and suddenly he’d be there.
“He followed and I was paranoid the whole time, looking over my shoulder.”
She is now calling for more protection for stalking victims: “There definitely needs to be more protection for stalking victims.
“I consider myself very lucky that the police took me seriously from day one but I know that’s not the case for so many other victims.”
