AIBU to be alarmed after a defendant contacted me?

Contact the crown office and report it as something has went awry if your statement was supposed to be anonymous and he is now contacting you.

I agree with pp; report to the prison security and the courts. Screen your calls just in case he (or a family member) tries to call you.

Not quite the same but a couple of years ago my sonwas hit by a car that stopped briefly then drove off. Ds car was quite badly damaged but thankfully he was unhurt. He got the number plate so reported it to the police and his insurance.

The driver turned up outside our house at about midnight a few weeks later (I was just returning from walking the dog). He was taking photos of the car and asked me to tell my son to withdraw the insurance claim. Ds came out and told him that he would persue it through insurance. He wasn’t aggressive but it was quite scary. We went to report to the police thinking he had got our address by criminal means. When ds checked the letter from the police it had this person’s address on it too. Seems bonkers to share this information.

Car repaired but the insurance company is still chasing him.

I hope you’re ok OP. That must’ve been scary. I don’t know why they told you you would remain anonymous, as unless there was a witness anonymity order (rare) they would have said your full name as the statement was read to the court.
as the case has already been heard and found guilty (as you said he is awaiting sentencing) it is a bit more nuanced than it being direct witness intimidation/perverting the course of justice.
I would 100% speak to witness care. It is likely to have been an admin error, where redactions should have been made and weren’t. Unless you described your address in the statement - IR the offence took place outside my house and they have worked it out from there

not sure what area your husband works in but this is poor advice re 999. That is for emergencies only, receiving a letter is not an emergency. Whilst it is an offence, yes. It is not an emergency

Report it to the prosecuting attorney and then report it to the prison warden.

Contact the prison he is at and inform them that you do not want contact. You will be placed on a non-contact list.

He was allowed access to the "bundle" which showed all evidence against him

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You definitely need to complain to as many people as possible that is shocking you can't undo this person knowing your name and address i would say he got it from his solicitor they have probably got your details they may not have even given them to him directly, hope you get answers and support

Perfect. I once went to the top and suddenly they were all bending over backwards to help

Write to the prison governor!!

Of course, and I have suggested the OP ask in my more detailed post. But there is no reason for her to worry about corruption because it is vanishingly unlikely. I imagine she is frightened enough without such conspiracy theories being put in her head.

If ever a thread needed picking up by the media, this is it. Maybe not ops personal circumstances, but the fact that this happens. It does strike at the heart of the CJS.

I have cctv and when incidents happen police ask if i saw who burgled this and that and my cameras never pickup details face etc.
Also i would never give real details on the police website knowing what has happened to you. This is a serious breach and tell police or witness contact you will sue under GDPR

Regardless of what you've stated above, the reason behind it still needs to be thoroughly investigated

Really silly to assume corruption - 99.999% of the time the reason for things like this is someone’s incompetence rather than conspiracy. As I have stated above, the most likely reason is that someone failed to redact a document properly.

There is some incorrect info on this thread. @ShapeofanLonmyforehead the most likely situation is that your statement or some other document with your details on it was not properly redacted by either the police or the CPS and was passed to the defendant’s legal team. It is not the defence solicitor’s job to check redactions have been done correctly and do it themselves, so ignore posters suggesting you take issue with that.

If this is what has happened, there has been a serious GDPR breach. In some situations this is actionable as a breach of your human rights also. But the immediate issue is to ensure you are safe.

You need to urgently contact the specific person you had with in the police and tell them what has happened, and tell them you feel scared that the defendant has your name and address and that you need them to confirm what steps will be taken to ensure the safety of you and your children. Make the point that while he is in prison awaiting sentencing, you have no idea if he has friends or associates who he may be a risk to you. (Just to reassure you, it is very very unlikely associates will do so, but unless you tell the police you are worried about it, the police won't take it as seriously as they should.)

You should also make the point that you consider this a deliberate attempt to intimidate you by making you aware that he has your name and address. Given the trial is over and he was presumably found guilty of he is just awaiting sentencing, while it cannot affect the trial, you consider it a threat.

Tell them you want them to take immediate steps to risk assess the situation and put measures in place to protect you all, Tell them that you also want them to look into how this happened and which service is responsible for this and how they intend to deal with it.

And do all of this in writing. Feel free to cc the witness service, but only the police can actually take steps and the witness service will simply pass things on rather than having any power to do things themselves.

This is shocking but im not at all surprised. There needs to be serious complaints to every single governing bodies or higher ups. Id also be concerned that maybe he knows someone in the police who has looked this up

I would be contacting the information commissioner to report a GDPR breach as well as everything else suggested here.

Copy in the other suggested list of people that the OP has been advise to report this to, including the MP. Then a paper trail exists.

If that defense lawyer did this they should be reported and t if proven they will be stuck off, of the CPS or Police did it then you will be entitled to significant compensation. It is a no brainer to report it to everyone you can.

Witness intimidation is a serious offence and carries a prison sentence

Agreed this is the post to read.

However, it sounds like the OP wasn't given the correct info from the get-go. Whoever she spoke to initially should have said this to her, not describing it as a 'non-reportable crime' which seems to be misleading.

Because the OP has been offered money by the defendant, and hasn't been sentenced yet, it would seem to increase the likelihood that they're attempting to pull a fast one, so I would contact the clerk to the judge as someone said upthread.

It is disgraceful that the OP wasn't made aware that she couldn't remain anonymous and it is still worth contacting her MP and informing them of this sorry tale, in my view.

Yep I’ve just been to court as a victim of a sexual assault. My name was read out and I was asked to confirm it, I was behind a screen though as I didn’t want to see him

OP - this is the post you need to read.

It's unclear if the trial has happened and concluded, and who told you that you'd be an anonymous witness.