When Emma Raducanu burst into the history books on a balmy September afternoon in New York last year, she seemed on top of the world. The first British woman to win a Grand Slam since 1977, and the only singles qualifier to do so in the Open era, she has since gone on to achieve certified national heroine status, become a brand ambassador for the likes of Tiffany & Co and Dior, and has a net worth of approximately £4 million. A life that most 19-year-olds could only dream of.
Today, however, Bromley magistrates court heard another side to this fairytale. After Raducanu’s US Open victory, a 35-year-old Amrit Magar began to develop an obsession for the tennis star. An obsession that led him, in November last year, to walk 23 miles across London to her family home to leave her a handwritten declaration of love. The former delivery driver visited Raducanu’s house on three separate occasions between November and December, once even stealing a shoe from her front porch as a “souvenir”.
