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My name is Lorraine I'm a victim of a stalker I was stalked for 10 years from 2007 to 2017
my stalker was a stranger I had no idea of his name I didn't know anything about him
when he first stopped me in 2007 he asked me to go on a date with him I refused and
he then persisted in asking me to go out with him and then he offered me a rose and a card
and said that he had been watching me for a long time and that he knew everything about me
He knew my name he knew my address he knew I had three children he knew my children's
names he knew I'd been divorced a year and he also knew I was seeing somebody
Can you imagine what it feels like having a total stranger stopping you in the street
and knowing everything about you and you don't know anything about them at all I was absolutely
terrified and then for the next 10 years my stalker followed me in his car he stopped
when I was walking the dog demanding that I dated him he was sending inappropriate Facebook
messages every time I blocked him on Facebook he would change his name send photographs
and send numerous friend requests and more inappropriate messages he would sit outside
my house for hours on end watching and waiting for me he also chased me in his car when I'd
been to the doctors he even followed and chased me as I went to the police station to report
him I would wake up in the morning with such an intense feeling inside me I would feel
sick and the hardest bit was not being able to tell people how I was feeling or understand
how I was feeling because he hadn't actually threatened to kill me I did keep reporting
to the police up until I think 2010 but because the police were not able or didn't do anything
I then stopped reporting it the stalking law didn't come into place until 2012 so up until
then he wasn't committing a criminal offence