Ministry of Justice handed victim's psychological report to stalker
Ministry of Justice is slammed for sending victim’s personal details to her violent stalker in clerical error
- Ministry of Justice accidentally sent victim’s clinical report to convicted stalker
- Rhianon Bragg’s psychological notes were sent to Gareth Wyn Jones in dossier
- The notes were included as part of his brief ahead of applying for parole
- MoJ is now investigating how the mistake happened as victim expresses fear
The Ministry of Justice has been slammed over a clerical error in which a jailed stalker received a letter outlining his victim’s psychological report.
Rhianon Bragg, 50, only learned this month that intimate details of her clinical sessions had been sent to her stalker Gareth Wyn Jones in prison back in February.
Jones is serving a four-and-a-half year sentence for stalking Ms Bragg and violent offences, including holding her hostage at gunpoint for eight hours.
Ms Bragg fears the contents of the letter may give Jones ‘ammunition’ to come after her again when he is freed.
He will have his matter heard by the parole board in 2023.
The Ministry of Justice has been slammed over a clerical error in which a jailed stalker received a letter outlining his victim’s psychological report (file image)
The Ministry of Justice has described the mistake as ‘unacceptable’ and vowed to launch an investigation into how it happened.
It’s understood as part of the parole process, Jones was sent a dossier about his case which included the report mistakenly.
Ms Bragg, a mother of four, told The Guardian: ‘It’s an absolutely horrendous situation. They shared with him my mental health assessment, my diagnosis. They have shared intimate information about me and the children.
‘You want to keep everything from a person like him. I can’t get my head around the severity of the damage this will cause. They’ve given ammunition to a dangerous man. What additional measures will be taken now to protect us?’
Ms Bragg was in a relationship with Jones for five years. When the relationship ended in 2019, he resorted to stalking.
The parole hearing, which was initially scheduled for this month but has been delayed due to the mishap, will be held in private for the sake of Jones’s mental health.
Ms Bragg extensively campaigned for it to be a public hearing.
She said: ‘His privacy is flagged up as an essential human right and adhered to utterly. Yet there has been a complete failure to have the same level for my rights. It makes my human rights, not for the first time, seem inconsequential to the criminal justice system.’
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