Man who painted ‘slutt’ graffiti on ex-partner’s home caught after he repeats spelling mistake in police interrogation
Spurned Frenchman tried to break into woman’s house after she ignored his texts
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Your support makes all the difference.A man who graffitied the word “slutt” on his ex-partner’s house was caught after he repeated the spelling mistake while being questioned by police.
Following the break-up of their relationship, the man reportedly bombarded the woman with 20 messages in just a few days.
Although numerous and sent mostly at night, the messages did not contain abusive or threatening language, Ouest France reported.
When the woman did not respond, the defendant turned up at her house in Cote de Penthievre, Brittany, with flowers, but she refused to let him in.
In response, he tried to force his way through the door and windows, prompting her to take refuge in the bathroom and call the police.
Then, some days later, the man spray painted the word “salope” – meaning slut, or bitch – on the woman’s house, misspelling it as “saloppe”, according to Ouest France.
Quick-thinking gendarmes later asked him to write down the word on a piece of paper, whereupon he repeated the error and incriminated himself.
At court in Saint-Brieuc on Thursday the man appeared to suggest his former partner had not consented often enough to sex, the report said.
He was ordered to pay 1,000 euros after being convicted of degrading and publicly insulting behaviour.
The man’s former partner said his actions had left her feeling unsafe.
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