A stalker who followed his victim round a Tesco store, then on a later date confronted her in the store’s car park and threatened to kill her partner, is facing jail.
Mark Dowie bombarded his ex, Elaine Pearson, with hundreds of text messages and wrote her letters up to 80 pages long during his three-and-a-half-month campaign of harassment.
The couple had broken up after 26 years in March but Dowie could not handle the split and began deluging Miss Pearson with messages begging her to come back.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson said the tensions had escalated to such an extent that a confrontation erupted in the car park of Dundee’s Tesco Riverside store.
Dowie made derogatory remarks about her before threatening to kill her new partner, Kmiec Kryzstof, who was in the car.
Dowie, 45, a prisoner at HMP Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment to charges of stalking and behaving in a threatening and abusive manner. The offences took place at addresses in Tayport and at Tesco, Riverside Drive, Dundee, between March 21 and July 6 this year.
Peter Mullen, defending, said Dowie rejected the suggestion he had gone to Tesco with the intent of starting a confrontation.
Sheriff George Way continued the case until later this week for a proof in mitigation hearing to clarify the circumstances of the Tesco car park incident.
Dowie was remanded in custody.