Gareth Davyd Wills, Mylor, sentenced for restraining order breach

Gareth Davyd Wills, aged 43, of Mylor Downs appeared at Truro Crown Court on Friday, October 28 for sentencing after having pleaded guilty to ten offences including breaching two restraining orders and criminal damage.

Wills was handed down a two and half year prison sentence. As he was being led away, Wills was heard to exclaim: "This isn't justice."

Wills was arrested on September 30 after being accused of breaching a number of orders made by the courts within days of them being made.

The offences included eight counts of acting in breach of a restraining order, a single count of attempting to breach a restraining order and a single count of criminal damage.

All of the offences took place between August and September, with Wills originally pleading not guilty to all charges.

Having been made the subject of two separate restraining orders after appearing in court on August 23 and September 1, it took Wills mere hours to breach the restraining orders by posting on social media platforms Facebook and Tik Tok.

He did so again on September 3, 7, 14 and 18.

The social media posts, which were described as 'rants' by Wills' defence and included videos posted to Tik Tok, included threatening employees of his former business, making comments about the actions he wished to take against them, and a message to his former partner on Facebook.

The court was told that in a series of videos and texts he made threats of violence against his former business partners.

Wills also committed breaches of an earlier restraining order which was the subject of a suspended sentence order for eight months imprisonment, suspended for two years.

The Packet reported at the time that, in one of the videos posted by Wills, in a transcript read out by the prosecution, Wills called for his ex-partners to pay him the money he said he was owed after he had left the company.

In it he said the police would need to protect two of the directors from him as he was going to "explode" with anger.

He said: "Pay me my f****ing money or pay the consequences. Give me my f****ing money because I am as hard as the f****ing day is long, I'm f****ing hard. I'd love to fill a load of people in, I'd love to fill loads of people in and I'd love to fill you in.

"I'd love to fill loads of people in because I am angry. People say I need to go to anger management class, no I don't. I need to get paid what I am f****ing owed.

"Pay me my money you f****ing bastards and I'll be the happiest man alive. The best f****ing Gareth you'll ever see in your life. But what you've got is someone who is f****ing angry. So this is for the police as well. You better f****ing get people on them, you better get police on [named person] and [named person] you better get to safety people, get police officers around their houses, because I am telling you, f****ing hell, if you don't pay me my money soon I am going to react and explode. They've got the money in that business to pay me what I want."

He ended the video saying "Pay me my money, you f****ing c**ts!"

Wills also admitted destroying a sign belonging to his former business.

Gareth Davyd Wills, aged 48, of Mylor Downs

His defence claimed that Wills: "blamed nobody but himself for the position he finds himself in" and that his 'difficulties' had begun around the time of the first lockdown.

It was also said that Wills "accepts that he must and he will come off all social media platforms" and "must take drastic action to defeat his behaviour."

During his sentencing, Judge Simon Carr told Wills: "You have pleaded guilty at the first opportunity to a series of breaches.

"Until 2019, you were a successful business man, a director of an estate agents."

Judge Carr also said that Wills had 'fully understood' the 'extensive' restraining orders that he had been placed under and that Wills' 'difficulties' during lockdown did not excuse what he had done.

"The reason for that is the persistence of what you did.

"You had complete contempt for the orders that had been made.

"You breached them, not within days or weeks, but within hours.

"It's said that they were rants, not threats.

"That is to deny they were in breach of the restraining order.

"It's said that they were not threatening, they didn't need to be.

"This is not a single offence, there's evidence to suggest you continued while in prison.

"You knew perfectly well what you were doing and continued to do it."