For second time is plotting to kill him Bus driver lives in fear of crazed passenger who stalked him SIX YEARS

declare her love for him when she was released in August last year.

Despite Imre blocking Howells, she kept creating new accounts. After he appeared in the documentary, her messages took an even more sinister turn.

Chillingly, Howells told Imre: “If I can’t have you, no one else will.” She also told him on the bus and in the street that they were “going to die together”.

The stalking escalated and in January Howells, of Shrivenham, Oxon, was held again after turning up at a bus stop and shouting and screaming at him. Police found she had a blade.

Imre said: “I felt scared. I was told she was saying she is going to stab me in the neck and she had a knife.”

He took a lower-paid job, which he does not wish to reveal, and left Oxford. He did not go to court on July 5 to see her locked up again. Imre said: “Even though she is behind bars again, I am still in constant fear. Everywhere I look, I think of her. She’s ruined my life.”

Howells got three years after admitting breaching a restraining order, intimidating a witness and possessing a bladed article. But Imre said the term “is not long enough” and his own life is now more like serving a sentence.

He says Howells cost him a relationship with a woman in 2014, due to the stress she caused. And while he dreams of returning to his native Hungary to meet a woman and start a family there, he fears Howells would hurt them.

Imre, who has been supported by charity Paladin, said: “I can’t even think about looking for love again. I have too many trust issues and bad memories.

“Her behaviour has also cost me £10,000 a year because of missed shifts, avoiding overtime and changing jobs.

“It’s left me almost bankrupt, meaning I can’t afford to move back to my family in Hungary.”

Imre said he lives like a “90-year-old”, not wanting to go out or see anyone.

He added: “When I close the curtains, that’s my happy place. I have two-way film on the windows, I can’t see out and others cannot see in. My neighbours don’t know me. I am so wary of people.”

But Imre is determined to use his ordeal to help others, planning to start a website to support stalking victims.

He said: “I am speaking out because I want to warn others about Howells and for stalking victims to seek help.”

Thames Valley Police said: “Charlie Howells has subjected the victim to a sustained period of harassment which has had a significant impact on his life.

“She has never shown any remorse but multiple investigations and increasing sentence lengths demonstrate that this behaviour will not be tolerated.”