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Ms Hopkins sent a message to the force after seeing her former partner at Shrewsbury’s railway station in June.

He was jailed for 32 months in 2015, for kidnapping and imprisoning Ms Hopkins in her own home.

A judge also issued an indefinite restraining order preventing him from contacting Ms Hopkins or setting foot in Shrewsbury after his release.

Ms Hopkins also reported the incident to the police non-emergency number 101 but said the call handler appeared “totally disinterested.”

She rang West Mercia Police daily until she was eventually told that the matter had been referred to British Transport Police.

“They’d done nothing for four days, nothing. I didn’t know if he was in Shrewsbury, I didn’t know where he was.”

She told them she was frightened and hiding in her house. But she said “none of them appeared to give a damn.”

After reviewing the case British Transport Police said no further action was being taken, because her former partner was travelling for work and had stepped on to the platform in Shrewsbury to allow others to get off the train, which they said did not constitute a breach of his court order.