St Ives Man Sent Threats To Old Bosses

A man from St Ives who sent threatening and abusive messages to managers he previously worked for has been jailed.

Conrad Byatt, 51 of London Road, St Ives, sent the first set of messages just before midnight on 16th March to one of his former managers.

Byatt previously worked as a cleaner for the woman’s business and she saw the messages when she checked her work phone the following morning.

The messages included comments that Byatt was watching her, knew “all her movements” and was “coming for her.”

On 17th March, the morning after he sent the first messages, Byatt made two phone calls to the other joint manager of the same business who had already taken out a restraining order against him.

The order had been in place since December and had been breached once already. The calls were not answered by the woman and no voicemails were left.

The threats came after Byatt was sacked from the company in May by the two women after complaints from customers.

In police interview he answered “no comment” to all questions asked. However, he later pleaded guilty to the offences at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Friday (17th April).

Magistrates handed Byatt 26 weeks in prison. He was also given a two-year restraining order against the two women he harassed, with his existing restraining order for the third woman remaining in place.