Somersham stalker bombarded woman with more than 300 emails in two months

The man told the victim that she would be the reason his children didn’t have a dad if she didn’t reply to him

A stalker who bombarded a woman with more than 300 emails and tried to break into her house has been jailed. Carl Ashton, 46, began to persistently email the victim in July 2025.

His emails became obsessive. Despite being told to stop multiple times, he still sent more than 300 emails to her between July and August 2025.

Ashton’s emails would threaten suicide and self-harm unless she replied. He also told the victim she would be the reason his children would be without a dad.

The 46-year-old would reference his own funeral, suggesting that the victim would be responsible for his death because she refused to be in contact with him.

On September 6, 2025, Ashton turned up uninvited to the woman’s house at 4am. He tried to open her front door, called through the letterbox, dropped his keys through the letterbox, and partially climbed into the victim’s house through a bathroom window.

The woman called 999 and Ashton was arrested. On August 28 at Cambridge Crown Court, Ashton, of Coach Mews, Somersham, was sent to prison for two years and eight months. He had admitted to stalking and breaching a non-molestation order.

Ashton was subjected to a non-molestation order in December 2025. He breached it on May 11, 2026 where he posted about the victim on social media.

Detective Constable Sarah Hurrell, who investigated, said: “Ashton’s ongoing campaign of harassment left the victim living in fear, and in a constant state of emotional distress. Ashton was manipulative in his emails, and used emotionally abusive tactics to prey on the victim’s kindness, guilt-tripping her into thinking he would harm himself if she did not respond.

“This type of behaviour is completely unacceptable, and the impact it can have on victims’ lives cannot be underestimated. Stalking and harassment can, and does, have a devastating impact on victims, whose lives are overtaken by obsessive and unwanted behaviour.

“We encourage anyone experiencing similar behaviour to come forward. We take these crimes extremely seriously and will do everything we can to protect victims and bring offenders to justice.”