A convicted killer locked a teenager in a car and begged her to marry him after becoming 'fixated and obsessed' with her, a court heard.
Tosif Patel's victim - who was 19 at the time - had done nothing to suggest she wanted to form a romantic relationship with him. But the 33-year-old former marketing boss bombarded her with thousands of messages, made vile accusations about her and even turned up at the GP surgery where she worked as a receptionist.
On one occasion, Patel, from Bolton, sent her 1,000 messages in just eight hours. When the victim was actually speaking with police about his behaviour, she received 185 messages from him in 20 minutes.
