A stalker contacted the assisted suicide clinic Dignitas claiming one of her victims needed end-of-life care in a bizarre campaign of fear.
Emma Johnston, 49, also told funeral directors the woman, and another victim, had died, in the hope they’d call them, a court heard.
She targeted two women in a frightening campaign of terror that lasted more than a year, Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told.
She made contact with several funeral directors, claiming her victims were dead so that they'd get phone calls about their own funerals.
Johnston also made false claims of criminality about one woman to police and her employer.
Appearing in the dock, Johnston admitted both charges of causing fear or alarm by stalking and was warned against any more contact with the women, or she will face jail.
The offences took place between February 2020 and March 2021.
She submitted forms in the name of one victim to Swiss assisted dying clinic Dignitas claiming end-of-life care was needed and contacted four funeral directors and cremation firms in the hope they would make contact with her victim.
She also contacted Police Scotland and filed false reports of domestic abuse to officers.
Over the course of those same 13 months, she subjected another woman to the same calls from funeral service providers as well as a host of calls to other organisations, including her employer.
She repeatedly made false claims of criminality against her victim to Police Scotland and contacted the DVLA stating the woman had fraudulently obtained a car using someone else's name and address.
An email was also sent to the victim's employer by Johnston claiming the woman had committed a criminal offence.
She also sent a letter to Aberdeen’s Inchgarth Community Centre pretending to be the victim and sharing false information.
Sheriff Gerard MacMillan told her: "These are, of course, serious charges.
"At your age and with no previous convictions it is clear that there is something that requires to be found out about the background to these matters."
He deferred sentencing, to allow for background reports, but warned bail was granted on the condition that she does not contact either complainant.
Johnston was warned that if she broke those conditions she could face jail.
"You must not contact them at all, either electronically through messages or calls or in person," Sheriff MacMillan added. "That offence would be extremely serious for you and it could well cost you your liberty."
Johnston, of Stoneywood, near Aberdeen, will next appear at the city’s Sheriff Court on July 27.
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