Raymond Newell hid in bushes and stared into the home of his victim for hours
This is the twisted middle-aged Orangeman who stalked a 23-year-old woman, forcing her to quit her job and her place in a local band.
Raymond Newell stalked the young woman after he seemingly became infatuated and couldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer — despite him being more than twice her age.
The 50 year old Omagh Orangeman hid in bushes and stared into the home of his victim for hours and when cops raided his house they found a pair of binoculars set up to look straight into their house.
But he also contacted the victim on social media and repeatedly sent unwanted messages and stood outside her home while drunk and shouting that he “loved her”.
The creep, who plays the flute in a local band, is due to be sentenced at Omagh Magistrates Court on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to a single charge of stalking.
Last night a relative of the victim told the Sunday World that Newell, who is currently behind bars following a series of bail breaches, had made the family’s life hell for around two years.
They said: “The damage Raymond Newell has caused our family has been a trauma we will carry for a lifetime — and all because a sick man took an infatuation with a young woman less than half his age.
“He almost tore our family apart. Raymond watched the woman’s mum’s house almost constantly in case she turned up for a visit.
Leading Omagh Orangeman Raymond Newell
“She had to stop visiting because before she arrived, Raymond’s house would be in total darkness but as soon as she pulled up his house was lit up like a hotel and he would stand watching the mum’s house to see if he could get a glimpse of the her.
“He always kept his blinds tilted in a way that he could see her house and he used to watch the twins [the victim’s siblings] go to school and then watch the house for them coming home from school.”
Newell, from McClay Park, admitted a charge of “engaging in a course of conduct amounting to stalking which caused the injured party to suffer fear, alarm or substantial distress on various dates between December 2022 and January 3 this year”.
He was charged using new stalking legislation which only came into force two years ago.
According to the family member, the victim’s sister — who has autism and a severe learning disability — couldn’t even come to visit as Newell would have been out trying to lure her up to his house.
“He knows she is autistic and has a love for flute bands and when Raymond seen her coming in to her mum’s house, he would open his bedroom window and march around the room playing the flute trying to lure her up.
Leading Omagh Orangeman Raymond Newell who was found guilty this week of Stalking a young woman in the area.
“It was no longer safe for her to spend time at her mum’s house and she always thought it was because she had done something wrong.
“He would follow the twins, who were only 12 years old, to the shop or if they were visiting a friend he would hang around outside their friend’s house and often hang around the playpark if they went there.
“He was also caught standing opposite the victim’s mother’s house watching her youngest sister who was just three years old at the time playing in the garden.
“It has been complete hell and I hope that he gets a suitable sentence so we can carry on with our lives instead of going back to being scared to go into our garden or sit in a room at the back of our house where he was always watching.”
The family felt compelled to take video footage of Newell hiding in the bushes on his property looking over at them and also constantly staring out his window and hanging about on the street.
At an earlier court hearing in January when he first charged, a police officer told Dungannon Magistrates Court that on Christmas Day police were made aware that Newell, who was previously investigated for harassing the injured party, had ‘liked’ a series of photographs she had added to her TikTok.
Newell hanging around his victim’s family home
It also emerged he had been contacting her friends and loitering around her workplace.
This conduct caused her so much distress that she resolved to leave her job, which she previously loved.
Prior to this she resigned from a local band owing to Newell’s behaviour.
She provided a statement to police, as did her friend who provided screenshots of a number of messages from Newell in which he made numerous references to the inured party.
In addition, her mother told police Newell was “manufacturing opportunities to walk past her house and was watching her home and following her children”.
This left the mother feeling uncomfortable going into her own back garden.
Newell was arrested outside the injured party’s place of work on January 3 and a search of his home recovered a pair of binoculars from his bedroom which faced towards the injured party’s home.
As it was not possible to interview him at that stage, he was released on bail.
Weirdo Newell seen hanging around outside his victim’s family home
Within hours, police received a report of Newell standing outside his home shouting that he loved the injured party and directing abuse towards her mother.
He was drunk and began smashing bottles around his property.
Following his arrest this time, he was not released as it was felt he could not return to his home due to what had just occurred.
Newell was eventually bailed but was back inside three weeks later after he was arrested for watching the victim’s mum’s house.
by _BornToBeTaioseach_