Stalker pursued estranged wife in Perth

A stalker who barged into his victim’s home to try and find her was branded “obnoxious” by a sheriff yesterday.

Almo Brown, 59, was found guilty of causing his estranged wife fear or alarm by stalking her after she left him.

Sheriff Pino di Emidio said Brown continued to pester his wife after she left the family home and refused to get the message about the relationship being over.

He said: “This gentleman can have been in no doubt as to the view of his wife. There is an element of persistence about this.

“It is fairly obnoxious some of it, especially the barging into the house,” Sheriff di Emidio told Perth Sheriff Court. “The conclusion I can reach is that the decision to remove herself from the matrimonial home on June 1 was highly significant.

“That did provide a very clear signal.”

Brown’s victim told the court her husband turned up at her workplace, hung about near her parents’ home and repeatedly contacted her.

Fiscal depute Tina Dickie said: “There was an allegation of him following her to work. There was repeated contacting her, her parents and her friend.

“The accused, for the most part, doesn’t dispute the behaviour in so far as it described his whereabouts at certain times.

“His behaviour can be described as postrelationship stalking.”

She said Brown admitted he “wasn’t coping with the breakdown” of their relationship, and had been engaging in an “obsessive pursuit”.

Sheriff di Emidio found Brown, of Comely Bank, Perth, guilty of stalking his wife at various locations around Perth in June last year.

He deferred sentence for reports and Brown had bail continued.