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Nazi stalker Daniel Coleman sent bullets to victim and her housemates

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A NAZI stalker sent bullets to a woman and her flat-mates during a four-year-long reign of terror.

Daniel Coleman also made a video with photographs of the woman and her sister being beheaded by an axe and shot in the head that he sent to their mother.

Coleman also threw a brick at the woman's window with a note tied around it saying he would "slaughter her like a pig".

When police raided his home they found photographs of him dressed in a Nazi uniform, holding a gun.

Derby Crown Court was told that Coleman, 28, of Chaddesden, had "a preoccupation with Germany, Austria and National Socialism".

He was discharged by the Army following a court conviction when he was a teenager.

The court heard how he began the terrifying harassment after the girl spurned his advances and told him she did not want a relationship with him.

He daubed the victim's name across the Odeon cinema, where she worked in Derby, and her house, calling her "a dirty whore".

Recorder John Aucott handed Coleman a four-and-a-half year sentence after he pleaded guilty to harassment and gave him a lifelong restraining order banning him from contacting the girl and her family.

Recorder Aucott said: "You are not mad, you are bad.

"You did this for your own satisfaction and gratification.

"You subjected this poor girl and her family to persistent harassment for a number of years leaving her in a state of fear and constant nervousness.

"It says a lot for their character, and not yours, that they were able to function as a family at all. In 14 years this is the first time I have handed anyone who has come before me the maximum sentence I am allowed to."

David Outterside, prosecuting, said Coleman was jailed in 2006, along with another defendant, after smashing headstones at Derby's Jewish Cemetery.

On his release, in 2008, he met the woman, who was in her early 20s at the time.

Mr Outterside said: "He told her he wanted a relationship with her but she said she didn't want to. The following day a brick was thrown at the window of the rented property where she lived with two friends.

"It smashed one part of the double glazed window and the brick was found on the lawn of the front garden with a note tied around it.

"It said 'I will slaughter you all like pigs'.

"A week later an envelope was found in the garden of the same property with a rifle bullet inside.

"On the envelope was written 'I have a bullet for each of you'."

Five days later Coleman set up a fake Facebook account under the name Theodore Robert Cowell, which Mr Outterside said was the real name of the American serial killer Ted Bundy.

Coleman, of Tewkesbury Crescent, was arrested and sent back to prison to serve the remaining half of his sentence for the criminal damage to the headstones.

On his release, in March 2010, he began terrorising the victim again.

In May 2010 he daubed the name of the woman, calling her "a dead bitch", in 3ft high writing at the Odeon cinema and at the Duffield Road house where she lived.

She left the property, which belonged to her mother, and new tenants moved in.

A letter addressed by Coleman to his victim was delivered to the house. It read: "Get out or I will firebomb your house."

Then, in January last year, they were sent two DVDs containing photographs of the victim and her sister altered to make it appear they had suffered gun and knife wounds.

Mr Outterside said: "He has a preoccupation with Germany, Austria and National Socialism.

"One photograph the police found showed him wearing a [Nazi] army uniform and holding a firearm."

Julia King, for Coleman, said: "It is an appalling catalogue of incidents but there was no actual violence."

Speaking after the hearing DC Andy Hulland, who worked on the investigation, said: "The family are absolutely overjoyed at the length of the sentence the judge has handed out.

"They have been through a dramatic ordeal and it is a testament to them that they have handled themselves with such dignity during this time.

"I don't think anyone who has come across Coleman sees him as anything other than a nasty piece of work."

COLEMAN'S CATALOGUE OF TERROR

March 2006 – sentenced to three years for criminal damage after being found guilty of smashing headstones.

October 17, 2008 – asks the victim to start a relationship with him. She says no.

October 19, 2008 – Throws a brick at the window of the Duffield Road home the victim shares with two friends.

October 28, 2008 – Sends the victim a text asking to meet but she does not answer and instead calls the police.

October 29, 2008 – Coleman starts sending the victim and her younger sister Facebook messages from a false account in the name of Theodore Robert Cowell, the real name of serial killer Ted Bundy. In them he says: "I just thought I should let you know I am going to kill you." Another message reads: "You whore I am going to bash your head in."

March 3, 2010 – Coleman sees the victim in a Derby nightclub and approaches her, jabbing her in the arm and saying he "wanted to say sorry".

May 25, 2010 – Daubs the victim's name on the garage doors of her Duffield Road home and on a wall outside the Odeon cinema in Derby.

December 15, 2010 – Sends a letter to the Duffield Road address, where the victim is no longer living, saying: "Get out or I will firebomb your house."

January 2011 – sends DVDs containing doctored photographs of his victim showing her being beheaded and shot in the head by a gun. The discs are seen by her mother.

January 12, 2011 – Coleman sends an email to the victim saying "you and your sister are both dead whores".

Nazi stalker Daniel Coleman sent bullets to victim  and her housemates


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