A man who became obsessed with his neighbour and professed his love began stalking her after she rejected his advances.
Christopher Stevenson, of 24 Tannery Court, Inverness, yesterday admitted a course of conduct involving repeatedly sending notes, shouting abuse and swearing at 24-year-old Lisa Wright which went on from March, 2014 to December that year.
He had also been accused of threatening to rape her but that accusation was dropped by the Crown.
Fiscal depute Stewart MacIver asked Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood for a non-harassment order to be imposed, and the Sheriff said he would consider it while a background report was being prepared.
Defence lawyer Rory Gowans spoke briefly to his client and then told the court: “It will not be a problem.”
Stevenson will return to court on March 10 for sentence and his bail was continued.
Stevenson had denied engaging in a course of conduct which placed Miss Wright, who then lived at no 21 Tannery Court, in a sate of fear and alarm.
But after his change of mind, he admitted he repeatedly put notes of an abusive nature through her door, one saying that he loved her, and that he went to her door uninvited shouting and swearing at a married friend of hers, Alistair McNeil and accused him of having a sexual relationship with her.
Miss Wright told the court that she became friendly with her top floor flat neighbour but that there was no relationship between them.
“We were friends but there became problems when he was drunk. It was quite obsessive behaviour. I knew that he liked me but I told him often that he was old enough to be my father.
“He would put notes through my letterbox one saying that he still loved me, others calling me a slut and a whore.
“I phoned the police to get them to tell him to leave me alone and stop contacting me.
“I felt sick. I was scared he was going to be violent.” Miss Wright went on.
Cross examined by defence solicitor Rory Gowans, Miss Wright admitted that she had a conviction for making a false allegation against another man four years ago.
She said: “People have a past. Just because I made a false accusation once doesn’t didn’t give him the right. I have not taken drugs for three years.
