Selby Stalker was jailed for having illegal air force weapons

Anthony James Cairns, 35, also told police to “cut off the petitioner's head and enjoy it,” Robert Galley said, and told police to “send an armed response because I haven't given up on a light basis.”

In another of the many messages and calls he said to the woman, “You're dead, you're dead, you're… you're dead,” he threatened to shoot her as well as her.

Police found firearm ammunition at his home.

He has been previously convicted of illegally placing firearms in pubs and assault, said Galley of York Crown Court.

Defence counsel Jordan Millikan said the cause of the Cairns violations was drugs and alcohol, and poor mental health caused by using both the substance and the two family genes.

Cairns, without a fixed address, admits stalkers, illegally owns air pistols and air rifles, owns cannabis and owns tramadols. The charges of forced action in the relationship were left on file after he refused it. It appears in his criminal history, but not as a conviction.

He was jailed for 16 months and for 10 years he was banned from contacting women in any way.

Galley said police in the North Yorkshire suburbs were watching Cairns at the Olympia Pub in Selby in January 2024.

He left the back door of the pub, grabbed a bag from some bushes, then ran to Ooze in the nearby river and threw it.

Galley said that neither air gun is the type that can only be held in certificates, but Cairns recently filed a prison sentence and is prohibited by law from having firearms of any kind.

At the end of the summer of 2023, Cairns was acting so aggressively towards his girlfriend at the time that he used Claire's law to learn about his criminal history and learned that he had a previous conviction of carrying a table leg as an offensive weapon and carrying a copycat firearm.

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The couple's relationship fell apart at the end of October 2024, and the day after he left her home, he gave her “multiple threats,” including the threat of shooting her and her mother.

For weeks he was followed by threats from London, including having people deal with her, and he avoided her attempts to block him by ringing his private number and using a fake Facebook account.

In a personal statement to the court, the woman said she had “life-changing effects” on her, causing problems with her mental health. It scares someone unexpectedly in her home at any time, and panic attacks scare her that she can't breathe and is too afraid to leave her home for the reasons she has to do.

Millikan said there was no evidence that Cairns intended to use firearms, and the ammunition was not stored with them.