"Stalker left me so SCARED I didn't dare close my eyes in the shower"

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Credit: SWNS   A woman whose stalker proposed to her at work after having met her just once was so terrified of him she couldn't close her eyes in the shower.  Jennifer Pickering, 32, has bravely opened up about her terrifying ordeal in a bid to encourage other women to report similar harassment.  Jennifer only met her stalker once, in March 2022, before he started bombarding her with sexually explicit messages, moving house to be closer to her, and even proposing to her at her place of work.  Jennifer immediately contacted the police and Jan Schlossar, 42, pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking without serious alarm and distress.  He was given a lifetime restraining order in June 2022, but within two hours of his release from prison on 16th September, he contacted Jennifer again leading to his arrest and remand.

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00:00 I was very scared. From the first encounter he ended up turning up at the office that I worked

00:05 in with flowers and a wedding ring and he actually planned to get engaged to me that day.

00:10 I first met Jan when he applied for work. I was working within recruitment and he came in

00:20 to apply for a truck driving job. The first encounter didn't necessarily ring alarm bells,

00:27 although it was strange. From the first encounter he was placed in work, within around about 48

00:35 hours I'd say it started to get a little bit strange, a little bit out of the ordinary.

00:40 I was getting messages and I was getting a lot of calls. From there he ended up turning up at

00:46 the office that I worked in and he was in a three-piece suit with flowers and a wedding ring

00:53 and he actually planned to get engaged to me that day. I was very scared and I called the

00:59 police straight away because I've never had any situation like that before and it was surreal.

01:06 He was released from his first arrest and he was bailed to an address within a mile from my house

01:12 and originally he did live in Peterborough so that escalated it very quickly and then from that

01:20 I was kind of bombarded every single day relentlessly. On a day-to-day basis I was

01:25 receiving messages throughout the night. I was getting messages at two, three o'clock in the

01:29 morning, videos being sent to me. He would sit and talk for every 20 minutes of time telling me

01:37 how we need to start making preparations for a baby, how he can't stop thinking about me,

01:42 he's crying because he's thinking about me. I was getting messages while he was working,

01:48 it was constant. It gave me a lot of anxiety and it made me very nervous around people which was

01:54 really sad because most of my job is surrounding working with people so it definitely affected me.

01:59 He went on for quite some time, the police would arrest him, bail him and he would break the

02:06 conditions of his bail. He would then go to prison. When he comes out of prison he contacted

02:11 me within two hours of being released from prison. On another occasion he was sitting

02:16 around five minutes away from my house waiting for me on a dark morning at 7am to go to work

02:22 so he just didn't stop. He stayed in hotels close to my house and he kept entering Leicestershire.

02:28 The outcome now is that he's been given two and a half years sentence

02:43 and that happened on the 2nd of February. He will be released within I think the next six to eight

02:49 months. Hopefully at that point the message has sunk in and it doesn't happen again. However,

02:56 I have still been receiving messages from one of his friends in the Czech Republic. Initially

03:02 it made me nervous, now I just don't do things. Now I'm very much of the mindset that if I go out

03:10 there may be the chance I could stumble across another person like that and it would give me

03:15 hell and I just don't want to be out in a position to do that again. It's made me very closed off to

03:22 meeting new people and I just kind of stick with the safe routes and the safe zones I suppose.

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