A 32-year-old woman who waged a campaign of stalking against her former partner before repeatedly violating protective court orders has been sentenced to 17 months’ imprisonment at Mold Crown Court.
Mersadee Harper appeared for resentencing and breach proceedings after failing to comply with the terms of a previous community disposal and repeatedly breaching a Domestic Abuse Protection Order.
The court was told that between 1 May and 13 May 2025, Harper subjected her former partner, Leon Lovell, to persistent harassment and intimidation. The offending involved Harper banging on his front door, repeatedly ringing his intercom buzzer, smearing dog faeces over his residential windows, and pushing burning paper through his letterbox.
Prosecutor Karl Scholz outlined that Harper originally received a 12-month community order for the stalking behaviour. However, Harper failed to attend compulsory appointments with the Probation Service. On one occasion, she falsely claimed her absence was due to hospital treatment following a road traffic accident, but subsequent inquiries confirmed no record of any hospital visit existed.
A Domestic Abuse Protection Order was subsequently imposed on 4 June 2026 to safeguard the victim. Despite this prohibition, Harper breached the order on two separate occasions. On 20 August 2026, she was observed alongside Mr Lovell at Wrexham Job Centre. On 15 September 2026, police officers attending the victim’s home address located Harper concealing herself inside a cupboard.
In mitigation, defence barrister Euros Jones submitted that Harper was pregnant.
Passing sentence, Judge Simon Mills revoked the original community order, observing that Harper’s repeated breaches demonstrated the community-based sentence was ineffective. The judge imposed a seven-month custodial term for the underlying stalking offence, ordered to run consecutively to a 10-month custodial sentence for the protective order breaches, amounting to a total sentence of 17 months’ imprisonment.
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Harper was sentenced for:
One count of stalking (following revocation of community order)
Two counts of breaching a Domestic Abuse Protection Order
The Crown Court judge ordered Harper to serve between one third and one half of the 17-month term in immediate custody before being considered for release on licence.
Alongside the custodial term, the court ordered:
Statutory post-custody licence supervision conditions upon release from prison
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