A heartbroken teenager who bombarded his ex-girlfriend with 100 phone calls after she ended their relationship has been admonished.
James Lauder previously admitted stalking his former partner over a four-day period last year, and appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to be sentenced yesterday.
When the 18-year-old last appeared, Sheriff Malcolm Garden ordered him to be of good behaviour for the next four months. Yesterday, he admonished and dismissed the lovesick teen after hearing there had been no further incidents.
Lauder, of Flat A, 3 Pentland Place, Peterhead, carried out a “course of conduct” which placed his victim in a state of fear and alarm between October 31 and November 3 last year.
The court previously heard he had been in a relationship with his victim until around September last year when she decided to break it off.
Fiscal depute Samia Rasheed said the pair decided to try to work things out a month later, but after a couple of days the relationship ended again.
Mrs Rasheed said Lauder “did not take this well” and between then and November 3 he telephoned his ex about 100 times.
The fiscal depute said the victim received 24 voicemail messages asking her to take him back.
On October 31, Lauder and his former partner both attended a party at a flat in Crown Street, Aberdeen with about 50 other people, before moving on to nightclub. Once there, Lauder continually tried to stop his ex from dancing.
The group then left the nightclub without Lauder, but after half an hour he turned up at the flat and repeatedly pressed the buzzer to get in.
The next day, Lauder contacted his ex to say he was going round to see her, but her mother refused to let him in – prompting him to knock on the door, shout through the letterbox and text the girl 20 times before police arrived.
Representing Lauder, solicitor Michael Burnett said there was “nothing sinister” in his client’s actions but said he just could not accept the fact that their relationship was over.