Sarah Hooper
Published November 28, 2025 12:01pm
Updated November 28, 2025 12:01pm
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She will never be able to go to Devon again after the relentless campaign(Picture: Devon Live)
An obsessed Dutchwoman has been banned from Devon for life after subjecting a family to a relentless campaign of harassment.
Nicoline Julius, 54, sent multiple messages and repeatedly ignored court orders to stop pestering the Teignmouth-based family.
The family had taken pity on her and tried to help Julius with her accommodation issues, but she wouldn’t leave them alone, causing major stress and anxiety, Exeter Crown Court heard.
They first met during a course they were attending in Ireland, but the harassment started soon after and in 2019, Julius was given a caution and told to stay away.
But she began ignoring restraining orders, sending text messages, and even dropping off an envelope in 2022 with ‘gold’ worth £1,800.
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The family contacted police, but she continued to bombard them with emails. With a court case looming, she carried on messaging about ‘betrayal’.
Julius has been sentenced to two years in prison (Picture: Devon Live)
Julius said she would ‘play Gandhi’ and park outside their house until they spoke to her. She accused the family of lying to get her into trouble and was arrested for the final time in September 2025.
At Exeter Crown Court, she was jailed for two years. When the judge delivered his verdict, Julius threw herself to the ground and began sobbing.
She admitted six breaches of a restraining order.
Kathleen Purshouse, mitigating, said Julius, formerly of Zutphen in the Netherlands, had autism and is prone to focus on particular details, which can be seen as obsessive.
Purshouse argued that Julius wasn’t driven by an intention to cause serious harm, adding that she now lives on a plot of land with her children in Ireland.
In a statement, the father of the family said: ‘We were worried we would never get her off our backs or be rid of her. We are not friends.
‘She has no reason to contact us. We offered her help once and have regretted it ever since. The harassment has been relentless.’
He added that Julius had wasted the time of the police, the court and the family’s time.
‘None of us has any interest in Nicoline Julius, and her visits to our home were very unnerving and worrying. She was too much. She just has no boundaries.
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‘She is being selfish. We did not want to contact. We tried ignoring her, but it just does not work. We want to make abundantly clear that none of the family wants contact ever again.’
Judge Stephen Climie said: ‘Those who are made subject to court orders – if they choose to breach them – they must be sent to prison. Otherwise, those orders have little if any real effect or impact.
‘I am going to make a further restraining order that will last the rest of your life, not to have any contact in any way, shape or form with the family.
‘Once you are released from custody, you’re not to enter Devon. You are an intelligent woman who knew full well what the terms of the order were but had developed an irrational obsession with them, which created enormous anxiety and stress.’
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