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An 'obsessed' former constable was today convicted of stalking his estranged policewoman wife who he caught having sex with a married police inspector in a Screwfix car park.
Gavin Harper, 45, was found guilty of the aggravated stalking of Stephanie Glynn, 40, causing her serious alarm or distress between December 2020 and February 2021.
At Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, jurors could not reach a verdict on the allegation that the father-of-two also unlawfully wounded acting Inspector Andrew McLullich, 42, at the Screwfix car park in Birkenhead, Wirral.
Prosecutors will return to court on April 2 to announce whether they will seek a retrial on the outstanding count.
The Crown said the security officer subjected Ms Glynn to 'obsessive, intrusive and unwanted behaviour' including spying on her, secretly bugging her car, listening into her conservations, tracking her whereabouts and taking her phone without her permission.
Gavin Harper (pictured smiling as he arrived for court on Monday), 45, was found guilty of stalking his wife Stephanie Glynn, 40
PC Stephanie Glynn was in a relationship with Harper for six years before they married in 2018. She told him their marriage was over and moved out in November 2020
Stephanie Glynn and Gavin Harper are pictured cutting a cake on their wedding day in 2018
Harper discovered the late night Screwfix tryst after it was said he placed a tracker underneath Ms Glynn's vehicle.
The defendant and Ms Glynn met as Merseyside Police officers and were in a six-year relationship before they married in 2018.
But Ms Glynn left the family home in December 2020 after she grew close to her work mentor Mr McLullich and the prosecution said the defendant could not accept the marriage breakdown and became 'obsessed with catching her in the act'.
Ms Glynn and Mr McLullich were naked from the waist down in the back of the inspector's vehicle when Harper crept up and filmed them at the window with his mobile phone.
Glynn, now divorced, was said to be 'sickeningly anxious' as a result of the defendant's campaign of behaviour and told the jury she
