Quick-thinking sufferer’s courageous actions snare “relentless stalker” | UK | News | EUROtoday

A relentless stalker has been snared after his sufferer doused him with a canister of Smartwater – enabling police to show he had breached bail circumstances. Neil Leddon, 54, has pleaded responsible to “relentlessly” stalking, harassing, and taking pictures of a lady with out her consent between Sunday, 3 November and Friday, 29 November final 12 months.

Leddon was charged with stalking after the terrified girl deployed a canister of SmartWater offered by Humberside Police’s Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Investigation Team when Leddon breached his bail circumstances and adopted her down her road in his automobile earlier than purposefully colliding along with her automobile. SmartWater is a fluid initially designed to mark property, utilizing distinctive DNA codes, so it could possibly be recognized if stolen. This similar know-how is now getting used to permit crime victims to mark their attackers as a result of traces of the fluid can’t be washed off or seen with the bare eye.

This week Leddon pleaded responsible to stalking, careless driving and driving with out insurance coverage at Hull Crown Court and has been bailed with circumstances to showing again on the court docket on June 4 for sentencing.

Det Insp Helen Collier mentioned: “Leddon is a relentless stalker who took pictures of the woman without her consent and waited for her outside her address and workplace on multiple occasions with one ominous intention, to affect her daily life by continuously causing her fear and alarm.

“He was also seen multiple times on her CCTV walking past her address in a way to intimidate her by circling around somewhere she is supposed to feel safe and secure.

“The brave actions taken by the woman to deploy her SmartWater canister is admirable.”

The officer mentioned SmartWater  provides victims a further safeguarding measure to make them really feel safer of their properties and while going about their enterprise, and was a key think about serving to the drive stack up proof towards Leddon forcing him to admit to his crimes.

She added: “We know that this technology makes a real difference to victims of domestic abuse and stalking, helping them feel safer and more in control.”