Jealous ex stalked Vogue model, held her hostage and dragged her along floor after break-up, court hears
She even claims he stalked her afterwards and broke into her student accommodation
A MODEL for Vogue was held hostage and then dragged along the floor after she dumped her jealous boyfriend, a court has heard.
Elaine Ford claims she was forced to shut herself in a bathroom after she told enraged partner Nathan Gray their short fling was over.
The model said Gray then carried out a stalking campaign against her in the following months by breaking into her student flat, getting into her car uninvited and refusing to leave, and following her as she went Christmas shopping.
The blonde 32DD underwear model also claims Gray stole her house keys, laptop and handbag and bombarded her with hundreds of phone calls and messages in the months following the couple's split in November 2013.
Ms Ford, who has modelled for Vogue and several Sunday newspaper magazines, told Edinburgh Sheriff Court she met Gray while they both were studying different subjects at Edinburgh University earlier that year.
The pair became lovers but soon broke up after she said she discovered Gray, 27, had been going through her private emails and texts.
The 28-year-old, from Stirling, told the court Gray was jealous of her male friends and didn't like her doing "certain" photoshoots.
The Edinburgh Uni biology graduate said: "At first it was OK but he was quite a jealous person - he didn't like me speaking to male and female friends. He tried to get me to stop talking to people he saw as a threat."
Ms Ford, who is signed to top Scottish model agency Superior Model Management, told the court Gray held her captive in her bedroom after she told him she wanted to end their relationship after he had became angry at a phone call from a male friend on November 27, 2013.
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She said: "Nathan came into the kitchen and grabbed my phone from my hand. He was very angry and said not to speak to him. He started going through my messages and emails - I felt it was an invasion of my privacy.
"He was angry and shaking and his face was really red. It seemed he had flipped out."
Ms Ford then said Gray, from Weymouth, Dorset, sat in front of her bedroom door and refused to let her leave.
"I wanted to leave but he sat in front of the door and wouldn't let me out. I felt scared and felt I didn't want know him anymore." she said.
She added Gray had ripped the handle off the bathroom door after she was forced to take refuge from him during the incident at her student flat in Marchmont, Edinburgh.
The model then claims she was pushed against a wall and dragged along the bedroom floor as she tried to stop him stealing her belongings.
She said: "I ran to the en-suite bathroom and he came right after me. I told him he was scaring me.
"He tore the handle off the door and was banging on the door. He was not being rational and had completely lost control."
Ms Ford, who gave her evidence behind a screen, claimed the incident where she was held against her will lasted around an hour before Gray eventually allowed her to leave.
She told the court she was forced to call in police on several occasions following the break-up after Gray, an engineering systems analyst, began his campaign of harassment.
The model said she was forced to take time off work at her then-position with SEPA and the harassment contributed to her failing her 1st year university exams after she claimed he had wiped her laptop.
"He treated me disgustingly through the last few months of our relationship", she added.
"There was extreme kindness followed by extreme abuse. I felt I had a stalker - he just wouldn't leave me alone."
Gray denies abducting Ms Ford by detaining her against her will and stealing her belongings between November 27 and December 22, 2013.
He also denies engaging in a course of conduct which caused Ms Ford fear and alarm by entering her home uninvited and refusing to leave, repeatedly contacting friends and family and repeatedly following her between November 27, 2013 and March 10, 2014.
The trial in front of Sheriff Alastair Noble continues next week.
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