An abusive mother who assaulted and frequently harassed her sole kid, a police officer, while claiming to have “empty nest syndrome,” has been barred from speaking to him for 18 months.
After becoming envious of her 30-year-old son PC Simon Randles moving out of the family home and in with his new girlfriend, Pauline Randles, 57, began her increasing campaign of harassment.
After accusing PC Randles’ girlfriend Lauren Stocker of “taking him away from her,” Randles, of Neston in Cheshire, hit PC Randles in the face and kicked him in the leg.
She threatened to murder Lauren Stocker if she saw her during the heated argument, and when Miss Stocker attempted to leave, she stepped in the path of the vehicle.
She wrote her son, a recently trained British Transport Police policeman, nasty messages over a six-week period, including the following: “I hope you were aborted – I wish you were fired from your job.”
She “emotionally abused” her son by threatening to overdose on drugs if he would not meet her requirements “immediately” and by sending photographs of a kitchen knife with the threat that she would use it to sever her wrists.
PC Randles said in a statement that the stress of his mother’s harassment forced him to be hospitalised.
He has anxiety and despair today and requested a restraining order because, in his words, “the issue had gone on for far too long.”
Mrs. Randles entered a guilty plea to two counts of criminal mischief, harassment, and assault at Warrington Magistrates’ Court.
She received a $120 fine, a 12-month community service requirement, and an 18-month communication restriction, which her attorney described as “like a bullet to her heart” since it would encompass Christmas.
While working as a delivery driver and a special constable for BTP, PC Randles lived with his mother and had a strong connection with her in the past.
However, she started having problems when they moved in together after he finished his official police training and after they met Miss Stocker in May of last year.
According to prosecutor Miss Ashleigh Simpson, “The defendant began threatening him that she would take an overdose if he didn’t cater to her requirements promptly.”
She did take some pills, was admitted to the hospital for evaluation, but was later discharged.
The complainant asserts that the defendant disapproved of his relationship status.
She repeatedly said that his girlfriend had snatched him away from her and that her behaviour was always becoming worse.
“The defendant would make out that she was going to commit herself while he was out with his lover.”
She once displayed images of a kitchen knife on a stair with the caption, “I will murder myself with this.”
Her son then called the police, who sent an ambulance to have her evaluated.
The boy often received texts from his mother that included things like, “I hope you were dead,” “I wish you were aborted,” and “I wish you were fired from your work.”
Additionally, suicide threats were made with knowledge of the impact they would have on the complainant. He struggles with sadness and anxiety.
He said that he had just been hospitalised and attributed it to stress from his ongoing interactions with the defendant.
He repeatedly instructed her not to call him and disabled her phone number.
PC Randles got an SOS call on April 25 telling him that his mother was at her brother Ronald’s house when he was with his girlfriend.
He arrived at the house in a vehicle, and as he approached the curb, he saw his mother, who approached him and said “What brought you here? What brought Lauren here? I’ll murder Lauren if I see her “.
The girlfriend attempted to leave the scene and saw that the defendant was upset.
The defendant then stepped in front of the automobile, but her son grabbed her hand to move her.
She kicked him in the leg and punched him in the face in an effort to get free.
Despite the fact that he was unharmed, he had to hold her down. The defendant persisted in his attempts to kick him.
PC Randles then left his mother at the house, but she used a wire that had fallen free from her bra to pry open the kitchen window and then the rear door.
Simon Randles said in his victim’s personal statement that the circumstance had been present for so long that it had negatively impacted his mental health, as well as his ability to go about his usual daily activities and do his work.
He claimed that if his mother’s messages go unanswered, she would urge some other individuals to get in touch with him and leave messages of a similar type.
Mrs. Randles was using every effort to increase her son’s anxiety and misery. The defendant harassed him and verbally abused him by making suicide threats.
She did not employ the knife image for any other purpose than to increase the complainant’s anguish.
One condition of the restraining order that Mr. Randles has asked is that she not attempt to contact him in any way.
It was a “very extremely said case,” according to defence attorney Howard Jones, and she had never previously had to appear in court.
Mrs. Randles has been having difficulties lately because of her son’s new relationship.
He was a huge support for his mother, but he finally moved out of the house, and she had a hard time accepting it.
“She definitely felt extremely alone,” and she said that his new partner prevented him from going out and offering any assistance. She was drinking and becoming increasingly alone and sad.
“I believe that something might have been done to prevent the trigger for the offences that are now before the court.”
She wanted to download an app on her phone so she could track her gas and electricity bills, but she had no idea how to accomplish it.
It was decided that her brother would handle this specific situation since “she wanted her son to install the programme, but he refused to do so.”
Her brother refused to let her inside despite her waiting outside his house.
Then Simon Randles and his girlfriend arrived, and the defendant stated, “okay, I’ll talk to the new girlfriend.”
The defendant would make out that she was going to commit herself while he was out with his girlfriend, according to Miss Ashleigh Simpson.
She once displayed images of a kitchen knife on a stair with the caption, “I will murder myself with this.”
The girlfriend attempted to leave in her car, but my client moved in front of her to stop her.
She did resist a little bit and was attempting to pull him off her until Simon Randles restrained her with a police restraint.
‘In my perspective, it was a pretty small attack. She entered a guilty plea because she didn’t want her kid to appear in court. She is really annoyed by everything.
This old woman, who lives alone herself at home and has no criminal history, is in a stressful situation. She then sent several texts that she later regretted sending.
It is probably regrettable that police did not first speak with Mrs. Randles and provide her a warning on the text messages before convicting her of this offence.
A restraining order, he said, would be “like a gunshot to her heart” over the Christmas season.
In addition, Mr. Jones said that his client had just celebrated her 57th birthday and that she had gotten a card from her son, adding, “He has also written a letter apologising inside it, essentially stating that these events should never have occurred.”
She wants to resume having a mother-and-son connection with her son.
JP Michael Danaher said in sentencing Randles, “This is an exceptionally terrible set of circumstances.”