A woman drew up a 21-clause “love contract” with a college lecturer after she became obsessed following a fling – and went on to stalk him for a decade.
Lina Tantash, 44, was jailed for four years after harassing Jarlath Rice, 50, to the brink of suicide when he moved home in a desperate bid to get away from her.
Tantash was born in an upper-middle class family in Jordan and was a respected employee at the prestigious Trinity College Dublin She had a weeks-long relationship with the former Irish filmmaker when they were working in the Irish capital in 2007.
But she bombarded his work office with thousands of phone calls and emails, believing they were still in a relationship because of her “love contract”.
Mr Rice said they had only had a brief relationship in Dublin in 2007, followed by a short friendship and he had spent the years since either placating her or trying to move on from her.
But she accused him of breaking her contract and hired a private detective to track him down to Brighton and moved to Croydon, south London.
She contacted his friends, family and work colleagues and ordered hundreds of pounds of takeaway pizza and had it sent to his office during a work event in the name of a female colleague she wrongly thought was his girlfriend.
Tantash was jailed and given restraining orders banning her contacting him and Sarah Bolland, 39, after being found guilty of two counts stalking involving serious alarm and distress at Lewes Crown Court.
She was convicted of stalking Mr Rice between July 2015 and February 2018 and his colleague at DV8 College in Brighton, east Sussex,
Ms Bolland between last September and February this year.