A stalker broke into a teenage girl’s bedroom and hid under her bed all night after sending “I’m watching you” text message, a court heard.
Kyle Ravenscroft, 18, sent frightening text messages to his victim saying he was “in the grounds” of her Chester house and was “watching her”.
He even threatened to hang himself outside her bedroom window so she would wake up and find his body.
His teenage victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, found Ravenscroft hiding under her bed the next morning, after getting the feeling she was being watched and checking her room.
Ravenscroft, who has no previous convictions, was spared an immediate jail term today by Chester magistrates who described the incident as “frightening” and “psychologically harming”.
He was sentenced to 12 weeks behind bars, suspended for two years, as well as a supervision order and £100 compensation to his victim after pleading guilty to stalking.
He was also ordered to complete 80 hours of unpaid work and a ‘building better relationships’ course and was made subject to a restraining order forbidding him from contacting or going near the girl.
His 16-year-old victim was at home with her mother when she was sent a series of “frightening” text messages from Ravenscroft, on July 3.
He said he had walked from his home in Ellesmere Port to her Chester house, was “standing in the grounds watching her” and he “hoped he she would wake up and find him hanging outside”, the court heard.
She was so frightened by the messages she decided to sleep in her mum’s room, as her bedroom was on the ground floor.
Just before she fell asleep, at just after midnight, he sent her a terrifying text reading “I’m in your house”.
She didn’t believe him but thought he was nearby, said Rob Youd prosecuting.
But the next morning she returned to her room and was sitting on her bed while on the phone to a friend when she sensed someone was watching her.
“She had the feeling she was being watched and listened to, she checked everything. She checked her wardrobe, behind doors,” he said.
“She then noticed that all her shoe boxes, normally neatly lined-up, under her bed had been moved. She crouched down and saw him hiding under it.
“She said “what are you doing under my bed?” and he said he had been asleep.”
Moments later, her mum came into the room and spotted him. She yelled at him to leave but before he did he stole the girl’s phone, which police say he used to ‘discover personal details about her life’.
Source: Mirror