A man who threatened to rape a woman during a “vile” campaign of harassment involving hundreds of abusive texts and TikToks collapsed in court after he was jailed for six years.
Adam Imienionek, 42, was given emergency medical treatment in the dock after a 999 call to paramedics and was later taken to hospital during a dramatic hearing at Norwich Crown Court.
Recorder Michael Turner had just sentenced the Polish national to a six-year extended sentence, made up of four years in prison and two on licence, after branding him a “dangerous offender”.
He said his victim was at “serious risk of harm” from him and that he posed a “very real future and present risk to women”.
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Imienionek, of Pheasant Close in Holt, admitted breaching earlier court orders not to contact the woman.
During a seven-month campaign of harassment he sent her 269 text messages and 38 TikTok videos as well as sending five letters through the post to her daughter “plainly intended to be seen by her mother”.
Recorder Turner said the communications had become increasingly “vile, abusive and disgusting”.
In one text message he threatened to rape the woman while in a voice message her asked her if she wanted to be raped, the court heard.
On another occasion, he sent her an email inviting her to participate in a sex party and including a link to a porn site.
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Recorder Turner said: “This was all designed to terrify her and in that you succeeded.”
He said the “deliberate and manipulative” campaign had a big impact on the woman and her children and rejected the suggestion mental health issues had contributed to his offending.
Imienionek had previously pleaded guilty to two charges related to multiple incidents of harassment between August 13 and Christmas Eve last year and breaching a court injunction against contacting his victim.
As well as being jailed he was made subject of a restraining order banning him from contacting the woman and entering Cromer.
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