An abusive mother who claims to have “empty nest syndrome” who attacked and repeatedly molested her only child, a police officer, has been banned from contacting him for 18 months.
Pauline Randles, 57, began her escalating campaign of harassment after becoming jealous of her son, PC Simon Randles, who left the family home in his 30s and moved in with his new girlfriend.
Randles, from Neston in Cheshire, slapped PC Randles in the face and kicked him in the leg after he accused his partner Lauren Stocker of “taking him from her”.
During the violent altercation, she said to her son, “If I see Lauren, I’ll kill her.” And as Miss Stocker was about to drive off, she blocked the car’s path.
Over a period of six weeks, she sent offensive messages to her son, a newly hired British Transport Police officer, saying: “I wish you had had an abortion – I wish you had been fired from your job.”
She “emotionally abused” her son, threatening to overdose on him if he didn’t attend to her needs “immediately” and sent pictures of a kitchen knife saying she was going to slit her wrists with it .
In a statement, PC Randles said he had to be hospitalized due to stress caused by being stalked by his mother.
He now suffers from anxiety and depression and asked for a restraining order, saying the “situation lasted far too long”.
In Warrington Magistrates’ Court, Ms Randles pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal damage, harassment and assault.
She was fined £120, ordered to complete a 12-month community directive and banned from contacting PC Randles for 18 months – which her lawyer said would be “like a bullet to her heart because that period including Christmas”.
Pauline Randles began her escalating campaign of harassment after becoming jealous of her son, PC Simon Randles (left), who left the family home in his 30s and moved in with new girlfriend Lauren Stocker (right).
Randles was fined £120 to complete a 12-month community order and banned from contacting PC Randles for 18 months.
PC Randles previously had a good relationship with his mother and lived with her while he worked as a delivery driver and as a special constable for BTP.
But their problems began after he met Miss Stocker in May last year and they moved in together after he completed his formal police training.
