Claire Waxman's stalker was sentenced to 16 months in prison but was released immediately as he had spent time in custody awaiting trial.
The Victims Commissioner for London has described the sentence handed down to her stalker of 19 years as "an insult".
She said stalking is a crime of "psychological terror" which is "so invasive to all parts of your life that it changes you as a person". The mum of two has been diagnosed with PTSD as a result of the long campaign of harassment and says the recent occurrence was "retriggering". Ms Waxman believes the criminal justice system isn't taking stalking "seriously enough" and wants to see harsher tariffs for repeated breaches of restraining orders. On the second or third offence, the punishment should increase automatically, she says."I know the system inside out. Not only as a victim, who's navigated it so many times over 19 years, but as the victims commissioner for London, hearing and supporting hundreds and hundreds of victims.
"The government draft victims bill would make no difference to any victim on the ground in its current status. We need to radically transform that and radically transform the way we treat victims," she said."I don't think what's just happened to him would be a deterrent at all... and I feel more vulnerable and more exposed."
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