Stalker who followed police officer to Turkey to present her with peanut detained in psychiatric unit

A Portugese man who was found guilty of stalking a police officer has been ordered to undergo treatment in a psychiatric unit.

Jeronimo Bouceiro, 41, followed his former landlady, PC Gillian Farnington, more than 2,000 miles to Turkey where she was on holiday with her son and presented her with the bizarre gift of a single peanut in a box.

He had previously been a lodger with Ms Farnington at her home in Errol until she told him to leave.

Bouceiro conducted his own defence during the trial and at the end of court proceedings he broke into song with a rendition of Frank Sinatra’s My Way.

He was found guilty after trial of engaging in a course of conduct that caused Ms Farnington fear and alarm between May 27 2011 and March 23 2012 by texting, emailing, calling and writing to her, stating he was in love with her, following her on holiday to Turkey, carrying out surveillance in order to establish her address and phone number and watching her.

At Perth Sheriff Court on Friday Sheriff Lindsay Foulis ordered that he be detained in Murray Royal Hospital’s Faskally Ward.

Bouceiro, of Main Street, Crook of Devon, will appear in court again on March 12.