A bricklayer who admitted stalking a woman after she ended their “cyber romance” sent her another 837 e-mails while out on bail.
Daniel Edmunds originally met Katrina Sillars online when she was 17.
But the relationship turned sour, and he ended up in court charged with stalking.
He was granted bail at Dingwall Sheriff Court on January 16, 2014 on the condition he did not, or did not attempt to, contact the teen.
But within weeks, he resumed messaging her and phoned her parents 15 times – usually well after midnight – demanding to speak to her.
The 26-year-old was ordered to carry out 240 hours unpaid work in March last year for the original stalking offence, and was put on a year-long supervision order.
A three-year non harassment order was also put in place.
Yesterday Edmunds appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court and admitted breaching his bail between February and July 2014 by repeatedly contacting or attempting to contact Miss Sillars. Sentence was deferred for background reports, and the case will call again next month.
Fiscal depute Roderick Urquhart said that his renewed contact with his victim had caused her “considerable stress and that she required therapy.”
Edmunds, of 2 Lanesborough Rise, Stockwood, Bristol, was originally convicted of stalking the teenager from January 1, 2012 to December 13, 2013 in Dingwall, Forres and Inverness.
He sent her threatening and abusive e-mails and texts, and threatened to kill her and members of her family. He also repeatedly contacted her friends to obtain information about her.
At last year’s hearing, the court heard the pair had struck up an online friendship, which had blossomed into a “cyber romance”, although they never met.
When Miss Sillars ended the relationship, he ignored her request to stop contacting her and bombarded her with messages.
She later produced thousands of his messages to police, which she said was only a selection from a larger quantity.
When officers raided Edmunds’s home, he told them: “I have just been stupid.
“I guess I was just trying to be controlling. I wouldn’t have done anything.”