{"id":180707,"date":"2023-10-10T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=180707"},"modified":"2023-10-10T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:57:10","slug":"librarian-honoured-by-the-queen-coerced-a-colleague-into-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/librarian-honoured-by-the-queen-coerced-a-colleague-into-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarian honoured by the Queen coerced a colleague into cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Librarian, 62, honoured by the Queen coerced a colleague into cheating on her partner so she&#8217;d keep her job &#8211; before stalking and bombarding her with texts and emails when she broke off their affair<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The ordeal left her afraid to leave her house and suffering from panic attacks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A senior librarian, who was honoured by the Queen, coerced a colleague into cheating on her partner so that she could keep her job &#8211; before stalking her when she broke it off with him.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Ashman, 62, subjected fellow librarian Catherine Brear to a two-year campaign of harassment as he\u00a0bombarded her with texts and emails following the end of their four-year affair, Southampton Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n<p>Ashman would turn up at her work unannounced, deliberately cycle past her in the street, and\u00a0threatened to reveal their affair to the woman she was in a long-term relationship with.<\/p>\n<p>The ordeal left Miss Brear afraid to leave her house and suffering from panic attacks, the court heard. She said a restraining order would make her feel less afraid and might allow her to resume normal life.<\/p>\n<p>Ashman, who was commended by the late Queen Elizabeth II via a British Empire Medal in recognition of his &#8216;service to Further Education&#8217;, has now been handed a suspended jail sentence. The judge also handed the senior librarian, who admitted a charge of stalking, a restraining order.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/08\/76369135-12613649-image-m-7_1696924423471.jpg\" height=\"925\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Richard Ashman, 62, subjected a fellow librarian to a two-year campaign of harassment\u00a0as he bombarded her with texts and emails following the end of their four-year affair<\/p>\n<p>Miss Brear and Ashman met in 2008 when she started working at Shirley Library in Southampton which he supervised. Their affair started at the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Devlin, prosecuting, said: &#8216;Miss Brear thought her job was at risk and Mr Ashman alluded that if she started a relationship with him, she would keep her job.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ashman remained her supervisor until April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Devlin continued: &#8216;That relationship went on towards the end of 2016 by which point Mr Ashman tried to blackmail her into keeping the relationship.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After their affair ended, Ashman, who became the city&#8217;s Central Library Manager, went out of his way to visit Shirley Library &#8211; where she worked &#8211; which &#8216;made her feel uncomfortable&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Devlin said Ashman &#8216;then started to send her emails and texts and she felt he was going to reveal the affair&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He said Ashman sent several unwanted emails, many of which were of a sexual nature and he repeatedly turned up at her home and workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Brear eventually told her partner about the affair but Ashman&#8217;s behaviour continued, Southampton Crown Court heard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/08\/76369133-12613649-image-m-6_1696924415620.jpg\" height=\"481\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Catherine Brear (pictured) said she was too afraid to leave the house &#8211; the judge said she was living in an &#8216;invisible cage&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Devlin said: &#8216;In March 2021, she told her manager about the affair. [Her manager] sent Ashman an email with her copied in, requesting he would leave her alone but his stalking continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was seen shortly after, looking through the bush in her front garden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There was Ring [doorbell camera] footage of a figure matching Mr Ashton leaving packages on the front doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She often, on the way to work, would see him cycling past on his bicycle.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ashman admitted leaving roses and gifts for her on her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Devlin continued: &#8216;Miss Brear said she was very frightened and often has panic attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mr Ashman was beyond an age where really, he should know better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In a victim impact statement read to the court, Miss Brear wrote: &#8216;This whole incident has left me feeling very nervous when I am alone in the house. I am afraid Richard may be there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am particularly afraid when walking in public at the hours of darkness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I do not go out in the day when I am on my own because I am too afraid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I believe that a restraining order would make me feel less afraid and allow me to resume my normal life.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/09\/76369471-12613649-image-m-9_1696925990166.jpg\" height=\"405\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Judge Christopher Parker handed Ashman a 15 months jail sentence, suspended for 18 months at Southampton Crown Court<\/p>\n<p>Ashman admitted a single charge of stalking lead to serious harm and distress, between November 1, 2019, and January 31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyer told the court the divorcee &#8216;had a background of helping others&#8217; and he and his ex-wife had acted as foster carers for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Keely Harvey, mitigating, said he would take in children &#8216;that had been damaged through birth or through what their parents had done to them&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 whilst working as a Library Co-ordinator at City College, Southampton, Ashman received a New Year&#8217;s Honour from the Queen for &#8216;his service to Further Education&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Harvey said that following the breakdown of his relationship with Miss Brear, Ashman was a man who &#8216;didn&#8217;t realise what he was doing&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Christopher Parker handed Ashman a 15 months jail sentence, suspended for 18 months and said his behaviour meant Miss Brear was living in an &#8216;invisible cage&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;What you did for such a long time caused really substantial psychological harm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What that means is there wasn&#8217;t an hour when they weren&#8217;t looking over their shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;One can only hope that you recognise now how distressing and frightening that behaviour can be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If this had just been going on for a month, or a couple weeks, the harm would have been substantially less but it wasn&#8217;t &#8211; it went on for nearly two years.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ashman was also ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service and given a restraining order banning him from being within 150 yards of his victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12613649\/Librarian-Queen-honours-stalked-colleague-Southampton-court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Librarian, 62, honoured by the Queen coerced a colleague into cheating on her partner so she&#8217;d keep her job &#8211; before stalking and bombarding her with texts and emails when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Librarian honoured by the Queen coerced a colleague into cheating - Hot World Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/librarian-honoured-by-the-queen-coerced-a-colleague-into-cheating\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Librarian honoured by the Queen coerced a colleague into cheating - Hot World Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Librarian, 62, honoured by the Queen coerced a colleague into cheating on her partner so she&#8217;d keep her job &#8211; 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