A stalker who terrorised a girl with disturbing presents whereas in disguise faces jail after being unmasked.
Mason Rogers, 22, left a sequence of things on the doorstep of a 24-year-old lady – who was not identified to him – over a interval of greater than ten months.
His marketing campaign started in February 2024 when he left a limited-edition Valentine’s Day figurine in a bag exterior the sufferer’s dwelling in Hailsham, Sussex – practically ten miles away from his dwelling in Eastbourne.
Following the incident, the sufferer arrange a doorbell digicam, which six months later confirmed a person in a Spiderman masks – later found to be Rogers – posting a parcel via her letterbox.
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Wrapped in birthday-themed wrapping paper, it contained a e book based mostly on a TV present the sufferer appreciated as a toddler.
A card inside mentioned ‘comfortable six months and seventeen days since’ the final present and had a printed QR code linking to a video referred to as ‘My Stalker’.
Rogers returned in December – now carrying a baseball cap and face masks – and left one other package deal containing a doorbell digicam and an inside CCTV digicam.
It contained one other card, which this time mentioned ‘comfortable ten months and sixteen days because you discovered you had a stalker’.
Rogers was recognized and arrested following police enquiries and a public enchantment for data.
Inside his dwelling, officers discovered a handwritten word of the sufferer’s identify and tackle, the identical wrapping paper used for the presents, and a diary with notes concerning the sufferer’s private life and extra presents he wished to get her.
Rogers admitted a cost of stalking involving critical alarm and misery – which carries a jail sentence of as much as 10 years – at a courtroom listening to on Friday.
He is because of be sentenced at an extra listening to on January 31.
DCI Kelly Lewis, the Sussex Police lead for stalking, mentioned: The sufferer was understandably distressed and I’d prefer to commend the energy and bravado she confirmed in reporting this to police.”
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