In February 2022, Garfield – brought to trial under his previous name, Riagain Grainger – was jailed for two-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to a charge of stalking involving serious alarm and distress.<\/p>\n
The court heard he had stalked and bombarded a 21-year-old woman with messages in 2019 after meeting when the pair studied together in Manchester.<\/p>\n
Jodie had to then wait for her case to be heard, and in February of this year she was in court to see the 25-year-old jailed for 19 months, with a further 19 months on supervised licence on his release from prison.<\/p>\n
Jodie said the harassment was distressing, but it was the police process that made her ordeal worse.<\/p>\n
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said it was a “complex investigation” and officers had “acted in good faith, and on the information available to them at the time”.<\/p>\n
“It became clear that Garfield had intended to portray himself as a victim to make the real victim in this case look like an offender.”<\/p>\n
He said officers have acknowledged the “shortcomings” in how Jodie’s case was handled.<\/p>\n
“Throughout this case investigators worked with a number of police services across the UK in order to locate Garfield and bring him to justice before court,” he added.<\/p>\n
Following a review, Jodie has agreed to work with the PSNI to improve their systems and practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In February 2022, Garfield – brought to trial under his previous name, Riagain Grainger – was jailed for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-518661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}