A MARRIED mother who stalked a man for more than three years after their affair ended has been admonished after being of good behaviour for the past six months.

Karen Anderson, 47, was furious when she heard her 28-year-old former lover had made derogatory remarks about her when their fling ended.

A previous hearing at Selkirk Sheriff Court heard the pair had known each other socially for years and they had a “brief liaison” around 2007 and 2008 when he was just 22.

But after that obsessed Anderson plagued him with telephones calls and text messages and he eventually reported her to the police.

Even after she had appeared in court accused of harassing him, she breached an order by repeatedly texting him over the Christmas and New Year period from her home at Shawmount Farm near Selkirk where she lives with her husband and two daughters.

Anderson pleaded guilty to breaching the court order as well as another charge of causing fear and alarm by repeatedly texting the man over a three year period and driving past the home of his girlfriend.

After hearing she had been of good behaviour over the past six months, Sheriff Peter Paterson admonished her.