A chess master has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for stalking, and labelling a university student as a prostitute in revenge for her refusing to rekindle an extra marital affair.
Married Paul Keevil, 55, had been gifting money to the woman in her 20s after a series of sexual encounters.
He later resorted to blackmail when she began a relationship with another man and became pregnant with his child, a court heard.
Over a five month period obsessed Keevil vowed to publicly humiliated his former mistress as a ‘sex worker’ in hopes of getting her thrown off her degree course and sacked from the children’s nursery she worked at.
A court in Bolton heard Keevil, a chess master who acts as a carer to to his wife, first met the victim in 2018 via the dating website Seeking Arrangements