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Joe McElderry wins harassment suit against Asda stalker
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 13 September 2012
A 53 year old man from Stockport has been convicted of harassing Joe McElderry and his mother on several occasions in 2011. McElderry confessed to the court he had felt “creeped out” by the attentions of Ennis McBride, who has been issued a five-year restraining order and fined £1915.
Addressing judge and jury earlier this week, McElderry remembered an incident when, having been initially sighted by McElderry’s mother Eileen Joyce at a supermarket last 24 Dec, McBride was then arrested outside her house.
He said: “My mum rang and said ‘the stalker is back and he’s in Asda’. She sounded really upset but she was more concerned where I was and if I was with anyone. After that I went and locked the door. I felt intimidated that someone would be standing in the dark outside my house, and scared because it was Christmas Eve and it was the last thing I wanted to think about”.
On a more positive note, McElderry has a new album just out, which is the first to feature his own original ‘co-writes’. Here he is talking about that to Digital Spy.
