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Woman's stalker caught hiding in loft for 10 days after making 'her life hell'
police – by hiding out in his victim’s loft for 10 days.Ben Gould, 29, subjected 37-year-old Hayley Smith to a year-long campaign of harassment after they met on dating site Plenty of Fish.The two initially hit it off, and Gould even moved in with Hayley but then his ex got in touch with Hayley to tell her that they had still been living together when he first started dating her.READ MORE: Vile thug who gouged out lover's eyes and blinded her loses bid to be freed from prisonHayley then ended the relationship, but Gould refused to accept her decision.He bombarded her with texts and calls, some of them apparently threatening her dog and hung around outside her house throwing stones at the windows. But his most shocking act was to hide in the Cornwall mum’s loft for ten days.Gould was eventually caught and sentenced to 20 weeks in prison, suspended for two years, along with compulsory building better relationships sessions and 150 hours of unpaid work.Hayley said that the sentence “wasn't enough for what he'd put me and the kids through."She added: “Psychologically I'll never recover from the ordeal,” she added.