Serial stalker admits tormenting victim from behind bars

A serial stalker was yesterday facing jail after he admitted terrorising one of his victims from his prison cell and even threatening to decapitate any man she was in contact with while he was locked up.

Mark Boucher made a string of threats to ex Jasmine McGraw after he had already been locked up over other offences.

He now faces a lengthy jail term after he admitted stalking Miss McGraw, as well as his other ex partners Laura Walker, Melissa Low and Diane Thomson.

Obsessed Boucher made the threats to Miss McGraw after he was last year spared jail for posting a picture of himself on Facebook brandishing a huge machete – then threatening to butcher her.

Even while locked up he claimed he could access her social media accounts to check up on her.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard “controlling” Boucher had harassed all four of his victims during and after their relationships – even accusing them of being unfaithful when he himself was seeing other women.

Describing the final stage of his harassment of Miss McGraw, depute fiscal Vicki Bell told the court: “He contacted her from prison and said he had access to her social media accounts.

“He admitted he was stalking her from prison.

“He called her 14 times from prison and his voice could be identified in the recordings.

“He was obsessed with her being unfaithful and said he would decapitate any male she was in contact with.”

She added: “At one point he whistled as if to another prisoner and said ‘get to her house’ before naming the street where she lived.”

Boucher, 28, a prisoner at HMP Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment to four charges of stalking committed between October 2007 and January this year at locations in Dundee, Perth and Forfar.

Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC deferred sentence for social work background reports until later this month.

Boucher was remanded in custody meantime.