SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR LEYTON STALKER WHO BOMBARDED VICTIM WITH FLOWERS AND 'SILENT PHONE CALLS'
A stalker has been sentenced after bombarding his victim with 60 ‘silent’ phone calls a day, sending unwanted flowers and following them home from work.Spartakos Tsoutsis, 31, of Dunedin Road, Leyton pleaded guilty to stalking at Thames Magistrates' Court on Tuesday (August 25).
He was arrested in July after subjecting his 25-year old victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to a barrage of unwanted attention despite receiving harassment warnings from the police.
The court heard he followed his victim to and from work, sent flowers and made up to 60 silent phone calls a day over a three week period starting in late 2013.
His stalking only stopped when he was arrested and charged by police for breaching a harassment notice issued to him in July 2014.
Tsoutsis was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment suspended for a year, given a restraining order against contacting the victim, as well as being ordered to attend a 35-day rehabilitation course and complete 80 hours of community service.
He was also forced to pay a total of £335 compensation and costs.
PC David Saffery from Waltham Forests' CID said: "This sentence will send a message that this sort of disturbing activity is taken extremely seriously by police." “Any victims in a similar situation can be reassured that we will take their allegations seriously and offenders will be put before the courts so they can be held to account for their crimes."
