Smirking stalker chased teenager at bus stop
A stalk,er frightened a teenage college student by chasing her after they met by chance at a bus stop, a judge was told.
Nathan Last stared and smirked at the 17-year-old before giving a foul-mouthed answer when asked what was the matter, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.
The girl found the 26-year-old defendant repeatedly waiting at the bus stop in Aldridge when she arrived, explained Mr Mark Phillips, prosecuting.
who continued: "She was not outwardly rude but did not encourage his attention."
Then, as she waited for a bus with two girl friends on February 26 – five months after the first meeting – Last put the group to flight by implying he wanted to go out with one of them, the court was told.
Sanctuary
"He followed and when they started running, he started running," said Mr Phillips. The teenagers sought sanctuary at the nearby home of a friend.The 17-year-old complained to police. She said: and later told officers: "I felt anxious around him. He is very strange."
I didn't know what his intentions where but he made me feel sick. I became stressed, paranoid and was not sleeping properly."
Last also made a malicious phone call to a community psychiatric nurse working for a mental health crisis team on March 5 threatening to harm himself and kill his former partner, revealed the prosecutor. When the nurse said she would call the police he warned that he would 'get her.'
Last from Sussex Avenue, Walsall pleaded guilty to stalking and making a malicious communication and was given a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years with a 24-month mental health requirement and made the subject of an indefinite restraining order banning any contact with the 17 year old. Judge James Burbidge QC said: "I have a psychiatric report which says you have significant mental health issues which makes your behaviour more comprehensible although not excusable."
