A MAN from Bangor who harassed and threatened seven people who he believed had conspired to lose him his job at Amazon has been jailed.

Georgi Georgiev, 35, of Glanrafon Hill, was sentenced to two years and eight months’ imprisonment at Mold Crown Court today (December 7).

He had previously admitted five counts of harassment with fear of violence, and two charges of exhibiting threatening behaviour.

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Prosecuting, Karl Scholz told the court that all of Georgiev’s seven victims came into contact with him through his employment at the Amazon depot in Bristol.

Georgiev’s employment with the company was terminated in 2020 following a disciplinary hearing.

Between April and September 2021, Lucy Sykes, who met Georgiev once at work, received a number of threatening and abusive messages from him.

Many of these were written in Georgiev’s native Bulgarian, but when translated through Google, Ms Sykes read that made threats to the safety of her and her family.

Frances Patel, a line manager at Amazon, received messages from Georgiev in August and September 2021, including him inviting her to “call the cops” on him.

A number of other messages sent to colleagues of Ms Patel included racial slurs made about her.

Russell Fry, a senior business partner at the company, became aware of Georgiev after he had made various unfounded allegations against staff members.

After speaking to Ms Sykes in April 2021, Mr Fry returned to his own computer to find an email, written in Bulgarian, from Georgiev; these contained numerous threats.

Hannah Roberts, a business partner, dealt with Georgiev on one occasion during his employment at Amazon.

In September 2021, he made threats to kill others in emails to Ms Roberts, as well as sending her an email of a coffin emoji.

Another involved him threatening her to reply to his emails, or he would “come looking for her”.

Shona Faulkner, who did not recall meeting Georgiev but whose husband worked at Amazon, received messages from various Facebook accounts used by the defendant in September 2021.

These “deeply disturbed” her, particularly by the way he had “gone to such lengths to seek her out”; some of the messages referred to Ms Faulkner dying.

Stephen Davies had been involved in inquires concerning Georgiev’s behaviour, and ultimately referred him for an occupational health assessment.

On September 8, 2021, Georgiev emailed him, saying: “I’ll swallow your teeth, you English f****** f*****.”

Emma Carmody dealt with Georgiev a number of times during various disciplinary hearings.

On September 17, 2021, she received messages and friend requests from a Facebook account which Georgiev was using under a fake name.

This left her “extremely frightened” and scared of using her own mobile phone.

Georgiev was arrested on September 22, 2021; when interviewed, he said he believed all of his victims had contributed to him losing his job.

He added that being fired affected his mental health, and that the messages were the “only way to make him feel better”, as he “needed his victims to know how he felt”.

Ms Sykes said she experienced “horrible nightmares” as a result of Georgiev’s messages, while Ms Patel added that Georgiev had previously subjected colleagues to “sick, vile abuse” at work in 2019.

Georgiev was described by Ms Roberts as a “clearly deranged individual”, adding: “His insidious behaviour must stop. He became a very real threat to those I care about.”

Defending Georgiev, who had no previous convictions, Patrick Gartland said there had been a suggestion that the defendant suffers from unmedicated psychosis and intrusive thoughts.

But Georgiev was said to dispute claims that he has a mental disorder, and to want a custodial sentence rather than a hospital order.

He had suffered “anger and anguish” through his wait to be sentenced, Mr Gartland said, and has not re-offended since being remanded in custody.

Sentencing, Judge Niclas Parry told Georgiev that he had “caused real fear, extreme in some cases”, through his “simply disgusting and filthy” messages.

Georgiev was made subject to a restraining order, preventing him from contacting any of his victims or current of former Amazon employee, or any members of their families, indefinitely.

He will also pay a statutory surcharge.

After being sentenced, Georgiev said: “I appreciate that, finally, I have been sentenced. Thank you very much.

“I want to say that these offences will not happen again, I will not disappoint with that.”

Judge Parry replied: “I’m extremely pleased to hear that. For the sake of everybody involved, I sincerely hope that will happen.”