Stalker texted victim just days before sentencing
A stalker begged his victim to drop charges against him just days before he was to learn his fate after pleading guilty before the courts.
David Till texted the woman 'please drop the charges' before being sentenced for harassment at Wolverhampton Magistrates' Court on April 28.
Till, aged 44, had been drinking and had sent the message in the hope of spending time with his dying sister, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard this week.
Reading out the message, Mr Edward Soulsby, prosecuting, said: "I have got so much to cope with now...the next couple of weeks are going to be hard enough without going to court.
"Please I beg you, I don't want to be doing community service when I could be with my sister...please don't tell the police, I don't want another night in jail."
Mr Soulsby said the victim was 'rather sick of hearing from him', and in a brief victim statement she said: "I just want David to leave me alone."
Mr Jon Roe, mitigating, said Till's message was not a threat but an emotional plea. Mr Roe said Till, of Davies House, Bloxwich, had mental health problems.
Till was given a 12-month community order, a four-week curfew and restraining order for two years for harassment. He was then given eight weeks' prison suspended for a year for perverting the course of justice. The victim has also taken out a restraining order against him.
