Gunman’s ex lived in fear – Yahoo! Canada News
Gunman’s ex lived in fear – Yahoo! Canada News
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The Edmonton man charged in connection with Wednesday’s hostage-taking drama at the WCB headquarters is an angry crack-cocaine abuser, says his fearful ex-wife.
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And, in a recent court-filed affidavit in support of a restraining order, Kristy Clarke, the former common-law wife of Patrick Charles Clayton, alleges he has harassed her and vandalized her home since they split up in 2005.
“I am afraid that (Clayton) will continue to send me degrading and threatening text and telephone messages,” says Clarke, 32, in the May 21 affidavit.
“I am so afraid that he will continue to show up at my home and damage property that I have moved permanently to a different home,” she writes.
“Because of (Clayton’s) drug abuse and unpredictable behaviour, I am also afraid that he may harm me physically,” she says.
Clarke had an emergency protection order granted on May 12, but it was terminated on May 21 and replaced with a restraining order.
As per the order, Clayton is not allowed to be within 200 metres of Clarke and cannot contact her in any way nor subject her to family violence.
Clarke alleges Clayton has admitted to her that he has used crack cocaine regularly since before 2001 and says his harassing behaviour in the past has increased when he was abusing drugs.
She claims she got a text message from him on May 3 asking her to guess how much crack he had done that day.
“On the same day he asked if I would like to have a party with him and said he would bring crack,” she says. “I am fearful of what he will do while under the influence of drugs.”
Clayton, 38, was charged by police yesterday with nine counts of unlawful confinement, six counts of pointing a firearm, possession of a dangerous weapon, careless use of a firearm and using a firearm in the commission of an offence.
He is slated to appear in provincial court today.
Clarke says she and Clayton lived together from 2001 until Dec. 13, 2005, and they have a six-year-old son who lives with her.
In the affidavit, Clarke alleges Clayton became angry and started to destroy property in her house on June 26, 2005.
She says he threw her kitchen table set out into the parking lot, tossed potted plants around the house, destroyed a large glass cabinet table, broke her vacuum, tore brick off the fireplace and plugged the toilet by stuffing it with their son’s baby pictures.
Since they separated, Clarke alleges he has come over to her home and harassed her on 10 separate occasions. She says he would want to talk to her and she would refuse and he would “become angry and lash out at me.”
She claims he has slammed doors and thrown things at her, including a phone, a set of keys, a deck of cards and pieces of a board game.
Beginning in February, Clarke alleges Clayton has been leaving her harassing phone and text messages and says some of them are “insulting” and call her names like “fat, whore, ho and cow.”
Clarke also claims some of the messages are threatening, saying that if she doesn’t answer the phone, he will come to the home.
She says she has received as many as 30 phone messages or 20 text messages in one day.
On April 30, Clarke says Clayton came to her home and placed some of his personal belongings on her deck, which left her very frightened due to his prior threats.
On May 1, she said she got a phone call from her building manager saying Clayton had thrown coffee tables and plants at the back of her vehicle. She also alleges he called her and accused her of stealing his van and then she phoned police, who found the van parked at her complex and vandalized.
“I believe (Clayton) was attempting to make it look like I had stolen and vandalized his van,” she said.
TONY.BLAIS@SUNMEDIA.CA
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