A WOMAN accused of stalking comedian Frankie Boyle has been ordered to stay away from the Scots star for the next three years.
Rebecca Gamble was alleged to have tormented Boyle by turning up to his gigs at The Stand comedy club in Glasgow and arriving at the
Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh, when he was staying there.
Gamble, from Folkestone, Kent, was also said to have caused the comedian fear and alarm by tracking him down to the Glasgow gourmet coffee shop The Cup and Saucer and also while he visited the city’s Botanic Gardens.
Gamble, 48, was also alleged to have repeatedly approached Boyle and communicated with him while she is also said to have contacted him on social media during her alleged eight-month stalking campaign.
Court papers also stated Gamble repeatedly loitered at the places she knew 45-year-old Boyle would be present, and stare at him.
She was acquitted of the allegations when she appeared from custody at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last Monday but was ordered to be detained under the Mental Health Act for the next six months.
Gamble has spent the past six weeks being psychiatrically assessed at the Orchard Clinic at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and Sheriff Kenneth Maciver was told a six-month hospital compulsion order was the recommendation of the doctors.
She was also handed a three-year non-harassment order, meaning she cannot contact Boyle in any way either in person or by contacting him by phone, email or on social media.
Any breach of the three-year order could see Gamble end up with a custodial sentence.
All the unwarranted attention was alleged to have taken place between February 1 and September 22 last year.
The court papers stated the comedian’s full name of Francis Martin Boyle. The controversial funnyman has starred in the popular TV shows Mock The Week, Tramadol Nights and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order.
Gamble was alleged to have engaged in a course of conduct that caused him fear and alarm in that she did repeatedly approach him and communicate with him, stare at him, contact him on social media, repeatedly monitor his movements and activities, repeatedly attend at places she knew he would be present and repeatedly loiter in places she knew, or suspected, he would be present.
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