I read she had taped him when he was in full rant mode  and it was played in court ,the content was very damaging to Collins.

140 hours Community Service.

Should be a prison sentence, imo. Show him what it's like to have your freedom taken away from you. 

38?  Good god he either had a very tough paper round or the trial has (and rightly so) taken it's toll on him.

I hadn't heard that bit about the tape Erin.  Didn't he also make her throw out any DVD's she had that had men she fancied in them? 

I've read bits and pieces of this case and it sounded very odd.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...-at-ex-lover-1357147

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...-at-ex-lover-1357147

I've heard bits and pieces on Sky about this case - to be honest, I don't think he'd have been found guilty if she hadn't have had the tape recording.

She was being portrayed as an alcoholic with a grudge to grind to fleece him out of money and I'm glad to see the jury saw through him 

Agreed, Pengy.

I agree its not enough. His tv career is surely over though, so thats added punishment. Although it seemed to be on the slide anyway, since Alan Carr went solo.

The recording was pretty bad from the transcript I read. 

u can never tell - i thought he seemed a nice guy

Totally agrree, feel so dissapointed him, but he clearly has control issues..

I'm wondering if the wife was 'coerced' into providing a good character witness statement for him or is this a new thing with him?  Seems strange with such a controlling personality that it didn't rear it's ugly head with her - or did it and he's threatened to withhold money for the kids to control what she's saying? 

i'll never know what alan carr saw in him

Can't stand the untalented idiot.  That said, I haven't been following the case.

Have you heard the tapes?

OMG !!!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...s-rant-tapes-1376850

The tape link doesn't work for me ?I tried to listen to it yesterday.

ERIN just Google Justin Lee Collins tape

I have and it takes me to the mirror article!!

TAPE ONE

Bleeped version - but contents are still strong

WARNING: Uncensored version - beware explicit language and content

TAPE TWO

Bleeped version - but contents are still strong

WARNING: Uncensored version - beware explicit languageand content

Put the link up that you have ,cheers .

So can you hear them? (I can see this taking a while)

he's off his rocker  lunatic 

no!!!!!!!! the links on the mirror web site do not work

Can you get the link to work?

Don't shout at me

(Whispers)  I just want to hear the tape

I read an article about this today. Apparantly she kept a book on his past relationships as well. The judge only gave him community service because he hadn't been violent towards her. I think the relationship was mutually destructive with him coming out of it worse because he should not make her feel frightened. He left his wife for her, so his wife will have just given her honest opinion of him. I also don't understand why a healthy young woman unencumbered by children couldn't just walk away.

Can you post it.cheers.

I am absolutely stunned

So am I .The link you posted is working for others and it won't work for me

He was saying she should look at the floor or an object when they were out at the pub, not other people.

Calling her foul names - saying she had ruined his Saturday and she should apologise and then massage his back.

it was the venom in his voice that was most unsettling

Cheers Saint.

Just read this and the picture he posted is  

You're not alone: Second ex-girlfriend accuses Justin Lee Collins of putting her through a year of hell

A photo Justin Lee Collins sent to Jo on her phone.. his warped jealousy soon emerged

 

sorry Erin, only link I have is the daily mirror 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...s-rant-tapes-1376850

The question I've been asking too, why would anyone in thier right mind stay with such an overbearing control freak?..I don't think she is as innocent as she is making out, and please don't think I am defending Collins because I am not..

SR, I have a friend that lived with a man who controlled her ,our friendship ended as did her relationship with her family,he saw to that but she couldn't see what he was doing.She had no friends, family, nothing but him.He would ask her if she had gone out and where she had gone ,he would then check the mileage to see if it matched.Other things he did and systematically put her through I wouldn't write on a forum.

If I saw her in the street she would avoid me,get into a panic.One time she( with her husband) bumped into my brother and he stopped to chat ,she paid the price when she returned home."Who was he" "Did they ever go out" "What was he saying".A few years later he  agreed to go to marriage guidance, she thought this was a turning point and they could make it work but he  accused her of flirting with the councillor.

When she did leave him (he slept with someone else) it was like she had come out of a cult.She can't believe what she lived through and why she stayed  but she did.

Blimey Erin that's awful, I suppose, it depends on the individual, and thier strength of character. Luckily I've not had friends or loved ones involved with controlling men like that, so guess it is hard for me to understand.

I know how hard it is to walk away from an abusive/unhealthy relationship. I watched my sister suffer for 22 years before she plucked up courage to leave. In saying that though she was very young, she had children and life was different then (sorry but it was).

I can't get my head around this case at all TBH - she was only with him for seven months - he must have displayed the behaviour very early on - why was she with him.

I know I'll get slated for this but I can't see what the court case was all about - he was obviously very controlling and a bit of a nightmare but it was him that ended the relationship. I'm sorry but I don't get it.