A STALKER followed his ex-girlfriend around the Trafford Centre and broke into her house while she was in the shower.

Dominic Wilson also climbed onto the roof of his former partner’s home in Cinnamon Brow and turned up at her new boyfriend’s house after monitoring her movements using Snapchat during months of harassment.

Liverpool Crown Court heard on Wednesday, November 20, heard that the couple first met working at Selfridges in the Trafford Centre in February 2018.

The pair were together for around 10 months before she ended the relationship in March this year due to Wilson having ‘jealousy issues’, after she had discovered he had been hacking into her social media accounts.

Over the next four months, the 28-year-old defendant embarked upon a campaign of bizarre behaviour that left his victim ‘exhausted and scared’.

On one occasion, he broke into her home through the bedroom window while she was in the shower and took her mobile phone.

While the victim was staying at her new boyfriend’s home in Latchford in August, she heard banging at the window and discovered that Wilson was throwing rocks at the property.

Later the same day, she heard a noise while watching TV at home and found that he had climbed onto the roof – running away across Poulton Park Golf Course after being rumbled.

In July, he turned up at the house saying he would ‘stay there all night’ and remained outside for two hours before the police had to take him away.

Wilson, who has no previous convictions, also sent abusive messages claimed ‘she had killed him and had blood on her hands’.

Despite the defendant having quit his job, he ‘bumped into’ his ex at the Trafford Centre on a number of occasions.

After one such meeting, she hid in a toilet for 20 minute but then discovered him still sat on a bench outside her workplace.

Wilson also accosted her in the car park and followed her around the shopping centre.

The victim later discovered that Wilson had been monitoring her location was using the maps feature on Snapchat.

In a statement which was read out to the court, she said: “I felt completely suffocated by it all.

“Somehow, he would find things out that he had no way of knowing – I thought I was going insane, and I was unable to speak to anyone.

“He was saying he was going to end his life, and I was worried for him but frustrated – I felt like was trying to emotionally blackmail me, he was becoming a pest.

“The relationship was over and I wanted us both to move on with our lives.

“I couldn’t believe he’d been in my house while I was in the shower – I didn’t sleep at all that night, I was fearful about what he would do to me if he got to me.

“I didn’t know what he was capable of doing – I wondered where else he had followed me to.

“I’m still paranoid that he’s following me.”

Wilson, from Flixton, admitted stalking during an earlier court hearing and was handed a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.

Sentencing, judge Louise Brandon said: “I hope you now have some understanding of the effect your behaviour has had on your victim.

“She had a constant cycle of emotions as a result of what you have done – she wants to be in a position where she is not constantly looking over her shoulder.

“There is no doubt in my judgement that the custodial threshold has been passed in this case, the only question is whether than sentence has to be immediate.

“You have never been before the courts before and you have realised that you have problems that need to be addressed.

“She wants to get on with her life and generously wants you to on with yours.

“I’m just persuaded that there is a reasonable prospect of rehabilitation which will enable me to suspend the inevitable custodial sentence.”

Wilson was also handed a restraining order banning him from contacting his victim or entering the Trafford Centre for the next 10 years, ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work and given a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 20 days.