A FOLK musician repeatedly attended at his Scots artist ex-girlfriend's art studios and exhibit, a court has heard.
Jarlath Henderson, 39, is on trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court accused of stalking Naimh MacKaveney, 29, between December 1, 2021, and December 18, 2024.
Henderson is alleged to have repeatedly sent MacKaveney unwanted messages.
He is further said to have attended, or loitered nearby, at her places of work in the city's Finnieston to locate her whereabouts.
The court heard from MacKaveney, who stated that the pair ended their relationship around October 2021.
MacKaveney claimed that Henderson sent her text messages in the early hours of the morning, questioning whether their break-up was the right thing to do.
One allegedly read: "I don't understand how this happened or how did things get so messed up?"
MacKaveney stated that other text messages that were sent were deleted by him the next morning.
She said: "I felt anxious and confused and I didn't know what they said or what he was trying to say or the point in them."
The trial was told that MacKaveney's brother told her that Henderson was outside his flat in December 2021.
She said: "That's when I saw him walking around outside the flat, coming up to the front door, looking up to the flat."
MacKaveney stated that she felt "on edge" as she did not have a conversation about wanting to see him.
She said: "I felt uncomfortable that he was walking around for 20 minutes watching the flat and didn't try and text or phone me and made no attempt to contact - he just waited outside."
The witness claimed that she later received a text message from Henderson saying that he shouldn't have "come looking" for her.
The next time MacKeveney saw him was in the street in January 2022, which she stated was coincidental.
The witness claimed that Henderson was "upset" at the time as she was seeing someone else and received a text message.
She added: "He said he was angry I was with my new partner but said that he had been emotionally unfaithful and that I moved particularly quickly and hadn't taken his feelings into consideration."
MacKaveney said that she received an apology for the text message in August that year.
MacKaveney told the court that she had several art studios in which she worked and were based around the hidden lane area of Finnieston.
She stated that she helped put on the New Glasgow Society art exhibit.
MacKaveney said that the event was advertised on social media and posters were put up in the west end of the city. She said: "I saw him looking in. He was looking at me."
MacKaveney added that Henderson also "lingered" around and put her "on edge again", but did not know if he saw her. The witness stated that the next time she saw Henderson was when she got a notification or her studio's video doorbell
She said: "I asked my business partner to ask him if he needed help and why he was there."
In November 2024, MacKaveney stated that she saw Henderson outside of her studio after she left work.
She said: "I looked up and he was at the entrance of the hidden lane and I went inside and phoned my mum."
Prosecutor Katie Malcolm asked how she felt and she replied: "Nervous and frightened - I didn't know why he was there."
Two weeks later, the witness claimed she saw Henderson for the final time near her work at the hidden lane. She said: "I was in my studio and my business partner texted me to say that she saw him on the video doorbell camera."
When asked how she felt on this occasion, MacKaveney replied: "I felt frightened of him as that was one of the first times I was in the studio by myself and saw that he was there."
Anna MacKay, defending, asked the witness if her client, who is also from Finnieston, would have been there to go to a shop in the hidden lane.
She replied: "He saw me go there [to her studio] two weeks before."
The lawyer told MacKaveney that on one of the occasions he was seen on the video doorbell that he was going to a massage parlour in the hidden lane. She replied: "Yes."
MacKay also told the witness that his partner is the manager of a shop near to the hidden lane, which she stated she was unaware of.
The trial continues before Sheriff Mark Moir KC in October.
