An Ayr-based cop has appeared in the dock for stalking his ex and planting flowers in her garden with hand written notes leaving her “freaked out”.
Alan McLuckie pled guilty to the stalking offence when he appeared before Kilmarnock Sheriff Court this week.
The court heard how the woman had been left “uncomfortable” and “freaked out” by McLuckie who admitted repeatedly going to her home address uninvited, planting flowers in her garden and continuously sending her notes, flowers and ornaments despite repeatedly being warned to leave her alone.
McLuckie, a police officer currently positioned in Ayr with eight years of service, had been in an on-and-off relationship with the woman for three years before ending things on March 2 this year.
The court heard how the 42-year-old from Saltcoats sent the woman various emails trying to reconcile after she blocked his number.
As a result of the constant contact, the woman emailed him and “made it clear that further contact was not wanted” and that she was “uncomfortable and freaked out.”
However, McLuckie failed to stop and continued contacting her.
On March 19 he emailed her to say she had left her lights on at the rear of her house.
Following this the woman blocked his email but she then began receiving hand written notes and flowers from McLuckie.
The prosecutor told how, on the weekend of March 30, witnesses spotted McLuckie outside the woman’s home address at night.
He was in the garden with a torch and was seen planting daffodils in her garden.
The court heard how the woman was “alarmed” when she returned from a camping trip to find the flowers in her garden and ripped them from the ground.
But the following day she returned from work to find the hole had been filled in again with a rose and a note from McLuckie.
On April 10 a solicitor sent McLuckie a letter on behalf of the woman stating that there was no prospect of a reconciliation and that his behaviour could only be viewed as harassment.
But on April 15 she found another note in her garden from a florist stating that she had missed a delivery from McLuckie and informed staff at the shop of the problems she had been having with her ex-partner.
Later that day she came home to find he had hand delivered the flowers along with a rock in the shape of a love heart.
The court also heard how a friend of the woman described her as “being in tears” when McLuckie turned up at her home uninvited.
The behaviour did not stop with the woman continuing to receive further notes, flower arrangements and messages written on stones saying “I love you” outside her home.
The woman spoke with her former neighbour, a police officer, on May 4 who advised her to contact police.
On May 7 she found another note from McLuckie which stated: “If you are going to tell your side of the story then please ensure it is clear all I ever wanted was to be loved in the way I adored and idolised you.”
That same day, May 7, the woman went to Saltcoats Police Station and provided officers with a statement, emails, photographs and hand written notes left by McLuckie.
McLuckie was later arrested and cautioned and charged with a stalking offence.
He pled guilty to engaging in a course of conduct which caused his ex-partner fear or alarm by repeatedly sending her emails and flowers, repeatedly attending at her home address uninvited, repeatedly planting flowers in her garden, repeatedly posting notes through her letterbox, placing notes on the front door and leaving notes, ornaments and greeting cards in her garden, phoning her and sending her a What’s App message and arranging flowers, stones and similar items in the shape of words outside her home address.
Sheriff Michael Hanlon deferred sentencing until August 16.
