Obsessed government worker hounded female colleague with love songs and poems
dailyrecord.co.ukAn obsessed government worker hounded a former colleague by sending her love songs he'd written and recorded for her in the run up to her wedding.
Civil servant William Darroch, 61, also penned poems for Ainsley McArthur and inundated her with WhatsApp messages and emails over a four-month period.
The contact led to her telling him not to attend her wedding and left her terrified he was going to turn up at the service, Greenock Sheriff Court heard.Darroch first met Ainsley in 2008 when they both started working for the Department for Work and Pensions in Glasgow.
She left the government body in 2019.But they remained in contact and in June 2020 he sent her a WhatsApp message, then refused to stop contacting her when she asked him to.The court heard he wrote and recorded four songs for her and sent her a poem shortly before her wedding.
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