07/09/2026
A 25-year-old Northampton woman has been jailed for two years and issued with an indefinite restraining order after subjecting her former partner to a campaign of domestic abuse.
In March 2025, Lilly Morgan Hubbard met her ex-partner on TikTok and shortly afterwards, moved into the woman’s home in the West Midlands.
However, the relationship soon became strained.
Over the next few months, Hubbard’s behaviour became controlling as she regularly checked her partner’s phone to see who she was speaking to and often started arguments if she had been in touch with female friends.
However, it wasn’t long before the relationship became physically abusive and in July, Hubbard was arrested and subsequently charged by West Midlands Police with assault by beating and intentional strangulation.
Hubbard was released on conditional bail by magistrates, but despite being prohibited from doing so, she continued to call the woman as well as send her video messages of herself self-harming through social media.
Concerned for Hubbard’s welfare, the woman resumed contact with her, and on October 21, travelled to her former partner’s home in Bordeaux Close, Northampton. However, Hubbard saw this as an opportunity to manipulate the woman and exert control.
Two days later, Hubbard deliberately set fire to a carpet and a toilet roll to stop her ex-partner from leaving, but fearing for her safety, the woman secretly called Northamptonshire Police, and Hubbard was arrested.
An investigation by the Domestic Abuse Investigation Unit led to Hubbard being charged with seven further offences against the woman.
However, she only pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour and one count of arson along with the West Midlands Police offences of assault by beating and intentional strangulation.
At Northampton Crown Court, Hubbard was sentenced to a total of 24 months in prison and issued with a restraining order, which will remain in place until further notice. She was also ordered to pay £187 victim surcharge.
The judge ordered the remaining five charges (a second count of engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour, threatening a person with an offensive weapon, false imprisonment, threats to kill and assault occasioning actual bodily harm) to remain on file.