A HIGH-PROFILE vegan blogger who hurled vile threats outside his ex-girlfriend’s home as his hysterical young daughter begged him to stop and take her home has been jailed.
Kyle O’Sullivan, who is said to have 20,000 social media followers, appeared at Warwick Crown Court after pleading guilty to putting a person in fear by harassment and common assault.
The 29-year-old, of Leamington Road, Rugby, was jailed for 12 months and was handed an indefinite restraining order banning him from having any contact with his victim.
Prosecutor Lucinda Wilmott-Lascelles said O’Sullivan and his ex-girlfriend had been in a volatile relationship since December 2017, and on September 18 last year he turned up at her home.
Brandishing a claw hammer, referring to her step-father, he began a foul-mouthed tirade at his ex.
O’Sullivan eventually returned to his car and drove away, but returned on October 4, apparently furious about something his ex had posted about him on social media.
She was at home with her mother when, with his seven-year-old daughter in tow, O’Sullivan approached an open window and begins shouting in an aggressive manner.
As his ex reached to close the window, a furious O’Sullivan slammed it shut, causing it to hit her.
The incident was recorded on a mobile phone, and O’Sullivan’s daughter can be heard screaming and pleading with him: “I want to go home,” as she tries to pull him away.
He continued for some minutes as his ex and her mother repeatedly ask him to go, pointing out how upset his daughter was getting, trying to pull him away as he confronts them at the door.
It came to an end when builders who were working nearby came over, and O’Sullivan put his daughter in his van and left.
But he still would not let it lie, and later phoned his ex, threatening her.
Hurling vile, personal abuse at her, he told his ex: “You are toxic, you are a poison. I can ruin your life.”
Despite that, she did not want to support a prosecution, but the police imposed a domestic violence protection order, which he breached, as a result of which he was jailed for six weeks.
It was only then his ex handed the police the evidence from her phone, and Miss Wilmott-Lascelles said when O’Sullivan was arrested in December he admitted the two incidents.
He told the police: “I said horrible things. I wanted her to feel the way I feel, upset. I didn’t mean them, they were pure hate and hurt.”
Jonathan Coode, defending, said: “His view is that she was trying to ruin his life. He is deeply ashamed that his daughter witnessed that. This is a toxic relationship which has gone horribly wrong.”
Judge Sylvia de Bertodano told O’Sullivan: “The message must go out that however much you were provoked, if you behave in this way, repeatedly, you will go to prison.”
