A MAN who launched a months-long campaign of harassment against a woman has been given a community service order by the Royal Court.
Luqman Holmes (30) caused the woman “distress and fear” by harassing her over a period of months. One one occasion he waited for her in a car park and followed her into her office building.
He admitted one count of domestic abuse and one of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
He sent her thousands of messages, including asking the woman for sex and for her to make him dinner.
Crown Advocate Lauren Hallam, prosecuting, described how he had sent the woman a card and gift after she had told him to stop sending her “long messages”.
The woman’s spare key for her flat had gone missing, and police officers later found it in Holmes’s bedside drawer.
The court heard that hours after he was released on bail, he asked the woman to “drop the charges”, and sent messages to the woman through his Apple Watch.
Advocate Olaf Blakeley, defending, said the case was “distressing and upsetting” for Holmes and for the woman.
He said Holmes had acted in “a temporary madness in which he simply could not control his emotions”. He had moved to Jersey from South Africa and had lost his support system as his marriage collapsed, he said.
He added that his client didn’t understand the seriousness of asking the woman to stop cooperating with police.
Holmes was given a domestic abuse protection order and given 140 hours of community service.
The Bailiff was presiding, with Lieutenant-Bailiff Robert Christensen and Jurat Michael Berry sitting.
