BEAUTY QUEEN BACKS

A BEAUTY queen today relives her terrifying ordeal at the hands of a stalker who grabbed her and tried to kiss her at the Miss England finals.

Twisted Jonathan Deal, 39, later turned up at Samantha Bumford’s new workplace, pinned her against a door and screamed at her for blocking him on Facebook.

The wannabe rapper had put Sam through three months of hell and she could not take any more.

She alerted police and, this week, he was jailed for six months.

In court Sam, 25, was chilled to discover Deal had 19 previous convictions, including three prison sentences for similar offences against women since 2003.

She is now backing the Sunday People’s campaign for a national stalking register.

The reigning Miss Poole, she said: “I broke down in the court room when I heard his previous. I felt physically sick that this guy had got anywhere near me.

“Why wasn’t this monster behind bars? Once I knew his history I was so scared I couldn’t leave the house alone.

Horror

“If I’d known I’d have gone to the police sooner. I was so stressed I became i l l and needed medication. It has ruined my life.”

Deal cornered Sam on her first day as a nursery manager in September, two days after she had blocked him on Facebook.

She took the step after he streamed a video telling followers he was auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent with a song “dedicated to his love for her”.

Despite the block, Deal – who raps under the stage name JAYD – used aliases to continue stalking the beauty queen.

She thought she was free of him but when she arrived at the school she heard her name called out twice yet could not see anyone.

She said: “It was like a horror movie. He jumped out and grabbed me. I was terrified. It was fairly dark and he was yelling at me, shouting ‘unblock me’.”

Deluded Deal towered over Sam and grabbed her.

He said she had only done so well in the Miss England finals a week earlier because of him.

Sam said: “I was in floods of tears, shaking. I was petrified.”

Deal, of Bournemouth, Dorset, had stalked Sam to the

Miss England finals in Nottingham and, on his trip to the city, told Facebook followers he was on a “quest to find” her. He said: “She has stolen my heart. She’s the love of my life.”

Sam, now a trainee teacher, discovered he was there only when he rushed up after rehearsals and gave her a necklace. She said: “I