She had previously been warned to stop her aggressive behaviour
Amanda Johnson admitted five offences of breaching a restraining order(Image: Hull Live)
A woman called her estranged husband a “monster” and repeatedly breached a restraining order – despite being warned to stop her aggressive behaviour after an earlier “campaign of bullying”. Amanda Johnson used “offensive and abusive language” during a series of messages, including calling him a “piece of sh*t” and a “c***” in some of them, Hull Crown Court heard.
Johnson, 39, of Butterfly Meadows, Molescroft, Beverley, admitted five offences of breaching a restraining order between February 17 and May 12. The order had been imposed on October 13 last year after she earlier admitted stalking her ex-husband between September 1, 2024 and April 29 last year and assaulting him on March 8 last year.
The court heard that Johnson sent the messages on an app and they included insults such as calling him a “piece of sh*t* and an “embarrassing man” as well as a “c***”. She told him: “You bore me, you honestly do.”
He believed that her behaviour “was a way to make his life difficult” but she told him: “You chose this.” She called him a “monster” and he eventually contacted the police.
She was arrested on May 21. Her estranged husband later said that Johnson’s breaches of the restraining order made him feel that she was “above the law and can do what she pleases”. She thought that she was the victim, he believed, and her “behaviour and narcissistic tendencies” had affected his mental health.
Whenever he was in Beverley, he was nervous that he was going to bump into her. The offences involved “offensive and abusive language” from her and caused alarm and distress, the court heard.
Jazmine Lee, mitigating, said that Johnson had struggled with the breakdown of her 10-year marriage and 21-year relationship. “The defendant accepts that she has taken this conduct too far and breached the order,” said Miss Lee.
There were “swipes” given “back and forth” and Johnson felt that her estranged husband said things to attack her. Johnson told the court that they were not divorced. She worked in human resources.
Johnson was fined £500 and she was ordered to pay £150 costs. She was warned that she might face prison if she continued to breach the restraining order.
At the earlier hearing in October, the court was told that Johnson launched a “torrent of abuse” against her estranged husband. She bombarded him with abusive and threatening text messages after she “lost all self-control” and her “nasty” behaviour escalated.
She suddenly punched him during one confrontation and her behaviour was “appalling” and “awful” towards him, the court heard that day.
She launched a “campaign of bullying” against him. She left his clothes and belongings outside the house after he left and she regularly screamed down the phone to him.
Johnson made threats and shouted “cheating c***” to him. She threw items at him and her behaviour “escalated even further and onto a much grander scale”. There were daily text messages with “name-calling and general hate”.
He felt “distress, understandably so, from the constant messaging”. There were dozens of messages and a series of missed calls.
She hurled a “torrent of abuse” and they were persistent. Johnson sent “sarcastic messages” in an attempt to make him jealous but he told her that he had started a new relationship.
She started a campaign of endless text messages and calls, demanding to know who the woman was. There were 25 missed calls and 67 text messages, with abusive comments. He hoped that she would come to her senses and stop but he later received 18 text messages and a missed call.
She later approached him while shouting and screaming and, without any warning, she punched him with a clenched fist on his arm. She later drove past his new girlfriend’s home at a slow speed.
Johnson posted a social media post saying: “Cheating, lying scum of the earth. Scum of the f***ing earth.” She made persistent efforts to contact him, despite knowing that it was unwanted.
At the October hearing, Johnson was given 12 days’ rehabilitation and a five-year restraining order. She was ordered that day to pay £200 costs.
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