A stalker who followed his victim 2,000 miles on holiday and carried out surveillance to discover her new address faces deportation.
Jeronimo Bouceiro, 40, of Main Road, Crook of Devon, was found guilty of stalking police officer Gillian Farnington after a lengthy and, at times, bizarre trial at Perth Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Michael Fletcher told the Portuguese national there was “ample evidence” to convict him.
The court heard that deportation papers have now been served on him and he also faces a possible non-harassment order.
During the trial, at which Bouceiro conducted his own defence, the court heard how he admitted making a trip to Turkey where Ms Farnington was on holiday with her son and presented her with 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 had claimed Ms Farnington had been impressed by him making lemonade with lemons he had brought back from Portugal and was convinced she wanted a relationship with him.
Despite her making it clear she wanted nothing to do with him, Bouceiro placed flowers on Ms Farnington’s car at her workplace and covertly established her new address and phone number.
The court had heard that Bouceiro felt “broken hearted” when Ms Farnington told him to leave her home and he claimed he memorised the dates she was going on holiday to Turkey.
She said the unemployed loner Bouceiro had gone through her bins and left various notes which left her frightened.
Ms Farnington said she was “completely shocked” when he suddenly appeared and sat next to her on a sun lounger in Turkey.
A letter from him then appeared in her hotel bedroom.
Bouceiro had told the court Ms Farnington became “cool” towards him when he told her he was growing a moustache and giving up wine and cigarettes as a protest about perceived shortfalls in her behaviour.
At the end of the trial, which took 10 months over numerous hearings to complete, he broke into a bizarre rendition of Frank Sinatra’s song, My Way.
Sheriff Fletcher found him guilty of engaging in a course of conduct that caused Ms Farnington fear and alarm between May 27 2011 and March 23 last year.
Sentence was deferred until January 13