A PERSISTENT stalker was today set to be sentenced to a Hospital Order under the Mental Health Act.

Jascu Mistry, 54, is in prison on remand after a flouting a court order banning her from contacting her neighbour Phillip Chappell.

Mistry was attracted to Mr Chappell and imagined that she had been spurned by him, Bradford and Keighley magistrates heard.

She was ordered to leave him alone after she was convicted of trying to force her way into his home, posting things through his door and throwing stones at his home.

Mistry, of Camellia Mount, Lidget Green, Bradford, was sentenced in February for stalking Mr Chappell, between October 11 and November 4 last year.

The magistrates made a restraining order without limit of time and conditionally discharged her for two years.

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She was re-arrested and held in custody for disobeying the order.

The court heard she had a long history of mental health problems and reports were commissioned from two psychiatrists.

Mistry's case was sent to the Crown Court but she was not produced by the prison service yesterday.

Her barrister, Clare Walsh, said Mistry had been unfit to attend court.

Judge Peter Benson adjourned the case overnight.

He said a bed was available for Mistry in a psychiatric hospital, after two doctors found that she was suffering from a treatable illness needing psychiatric intervention.