MAN WITH TEETH FETISH GIVEN PROBATION FOR STALKING AND HARASSMENT
A STALKER with a teeth fetish who took pictures of women's mouths has been given three years' probation.Eric White, 42, pretending to work for a dental magazine, approached his victims in the street and asked to take pictures of their teeth and tongues.
White, of Burnblea Gardens, Hamilton, then began a harassment campaign towards his victims, following them home from shopping centres and begging for their phone numbers.
He previously pleaded guilty to sexually aggravated breach of the peace towards three women on various occasions between October 2004 and November last year.
At Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Sheriff Isabella McColl ordered White to attend the South Lanarkshire community group sex offenders programme and sign on to the sex offenders' register while he is on probation.
She said: "It seems there is some underlying problem in your mind about your relationship with women." White, who works in promotions, targeted a woman in Bellshill, in October 2004.
He told her he worked for a dental magazine, then took out a camera and took five pictures of her.
He told her she had a "very sexy mouth" and "a beautiful tongue".
Almost a year later, White spotted the woman out shopping and followed her home.
She reported him to police.
White approached another woman in Edinburgh, in July last year.
A month later White appeared as she was out shopping.
He then arrived at her home in November of last year and asked to be let into her house, but the woman refused and called the police.
White approached his third victim in a Tesco car park in Edinburgh, on March 2 last year, asking if she was married and brushing her arm.
He then followed her as she drove to a friend's house where she called police with his registration number, and he was traced.
Defence agent Mark Hutchison said White was seeing a psychologist about his problem with women.
