A 25-stone sex offender who scared a shop worker by standing staring at her for 40 minutes has been placed on a curfew for 15 weeks. Creepy Gordon Simpson claimed he was building up the courage to ask for a date but admitted he caused fear or distress by stalking her.
Simpson - who appeared by video link yesterday because he is too large to fit in a prison escort van - was placed under social work supervision for two years. He was also banned from forming any new relationship without informing social workers, and ordered to stay away from the shop assistant he stalked.
Sheriff Francis Gill said: "You have pled guilty to an offence of stalking, which the court takes very seriously. You have clearly caused the complainer a great deal of fear and distress."
