A GOGINAN man has admitted harassing his former partner - and filming himself slapping her twice.

Gavin Oliver, 44, had been due to go on trial at Swansea Crown Court. But at the last moment he admitted the harassment and assault of Joanne Daylak.

Oliver, of Ivy Cottage, had been accused of threatening to throw acid into her face, monitoring her mobile telephone usage by installing spyware on her phone, blocking her access to emails and to a Facebook account by changing her passwords without her consent and to making unwanted telephone calls to her.

Oliver denied the charge, but admitted harassment.

The court heard that Oliver did not admit all the elements of the charge.

Full details will be given at a sentencing hearing on 11 August.

Paul Hobson, prosecuting, said Oliver had filmed Miss Daylak on his mobile telephone and could be seen slapping her twice.

Mr Hobson said Oliver had originally been charged with stabbing Miss Daylak in 2013.

But that charge would not be proceeded with, partly because at the time Miss Daylak had told police that she had been stabbed by a female who had been a stranger to her.

Of the harassment offence, Mr Hobson said he accepted that there were difficulties. Miss Daylak had complained of receiving more than 100 unwanted telephone calls but the police could find evidence of only “a dozen, maybe two dozen” calls.

And it would be difficult to prove, he added, that changes to passwords had been made without her permission.

Mr Hobson said the prosecution would ask the sentencing judge to issue a restraining order preventing Oliver from contacting Miss Daylak. Their relationship was now at an end, he added.

Oliver’s barrister, Janet Gedrych, said the order would not be opposed but the wording would have to be examined as they owned a house together and had a joint mortgage, which might necessitate some form of contact.

Judge Paul Thomas instructed a probation officer to prepare a report into Oliver’s background for the sentencing hearing.