Blue beard the cyclist has mental health problems

Prosecutor Nick Adlington said Eves repeatedly followed the woman home after she left work. He also stalked her in pubs and down shopping aisles at Marks & Spencer, Boyes and the Brunswick shopping centre in Scarborough.

Eves, a strapping six-footer, also made a habit of ghosting up behind her as she waited at road crossings. On one occasion, she told him she was extremely distressed and warned him she would call police, but he told her he wasn?t going to stop. On another occasion, he warned her: ?I tried to break you down before; I?m going to try again.?

When she finally called police, Eves made vehement denials but was charged with stalking her between August 2015 and January this year.

Last month, Scarborough magistrates found him guilty of harassment following a trial and transferred sentence to York Crown Court. Eves appeared in the dock on Thursday, maintaining an air of inscrutability behind his outrageous beard.

Defence barrister James Gelsthorpe said that up to the age of 55, Eves had led a blameless life, but went off the rails after suffering serious ill health which led to psychological problems.

Jailing him for seven months, Judge David Batty said Eves? denials showed that he had an ?entire? lack of remorse for his actions which had had a ?profound? effect on the victim.

In August 2012, he was convicted of religiously-aggravated harassment after sending viperish letters to a church woman and her husband, criticising their spiritualist-healing faith, which he said ?didn?t fall within Christian beliefs and was the work of the devil?.

He was given a six-month suspended prison sentence for that offence, but in 2014 he used a screwdriver to puncture the tyres of a rival fisherman who he claimed had deliberately damaged his inshore fishing pots used to catch lobster and crab.

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MrCheerful
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Sorry wrong group.

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MrCheerful

Should have been the Fishermans' Fiend group. (Pun intended).

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Gordon H

As a contractor I have worked in the Fishermans Factory in Fleetwood, Lancashire. It is not a nice place.

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Mr Pounder Esquire

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