Not the end...more the beginning of the positive side to what Claire can do. She is great with the media, and is really helping to champion the law being changed...I'm very proud
Thanks for the link mate - wow! Some major brickwalls weren't there!?! Not being taken seriously, etc.
Well done to your missus for the interview, must have taken a lot of strength.
If this law passed - how would it affect paparazzi, journalists, etc?
Some nutter was waiting for my girlfriend to finish work last weekend (she finishes at 3 or 4am) he offered her a lift and a job working for him. She stupidly accepted the lift. Don't worry I told her this was the most stupid thing she could have done. Fact is she gets paid $120 for a nights bar work and the taxi is $10. She grew up in Rio too which is a far from safer than Melbourne, although I explained a nutter is a nutter regardless of where you live.
Sunday morning when she told me about this, I went nuts and took her phone and found a message from him (sent at 4.30am).
I called him up and told him to listen very carefully, whilst I informed him that if he ever hangs around outside her bar again or contacts her I will rip him out of his bricky car by his hair and stamp on his head until he loses consciousness. He claimed he was only doing her a favour which he probably was but I have no time for these sickos who make this world an unsafe place for women and children. I dread the day I have a daughter for fear of this sort of thing happening to her.
Sorry, rant over.
Thanks guys - media coverage has been great - Claire really seems to be getting somewhere with the Stalking Laws...
What do his family make of all this ? have they tried getting him to stop?
While getting the law changed is great, but wont all of the press and TV coverage give him more stuff to look at and make the obsession worse?
What do his family make of all this ? have they tried getting him to stop?
While getting the law changed is great, but wont all of the press and TV coverage give him more stuff to look at and make the obsession worse?
Getting the exact shade of green right on the wheels of the model of the Flying Scotsman you're building out of spent matches and milk bottle tops is an obsession. This is mental illness pure and simple, many of the replies here don't take that into account, taking a baseball bat (as so many on here may well have done) to a relatively rational person would logically stop their behaviour, it wouldn't stop this particular guy's as he is too far gone to take to fully comprehend his actions.
That's why Claire and others need protecting, Claire and this guy have been failed by both the police, CPS and mental health workers, not portraying him as a victim though because he obviously has enough moments of clarity to know what he's doing is wrong, he just can't stop himself, he should have been sectioned for the good of himself and Claire a long time ago.
I honestly don't know what his family think or if they have tried to get him to stop, although if they have tried, they failed!
What I do know is that when I have seen them in court, they shout at abuse at ME! Calling me a troublemaker etc...