Jail for cross-dressing stalker

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A cross-dressing stalker who terrified a grandmother while high on drugs and with a knife, rope and spade in his car has been jailed for two years.

Christopher Magilton, 37, who was wearing a skirt and tights, also had plastic sheeting, a mask, and gloves when he targeted his victim in Perth.

Magilton pursued the woman for 10 miles during the early hours of Christmas Eve after spotting her leaving Tesco.

He previous pled guilty to breach of the peace.

Magilton, from Oldham, but who was staying in Dundee at the time, also pled guilty to possessing small amounts of amphetamine, cannabis resin, cocaine and cannabis.

We cannot have behaviour of that sort Lord Brailsford

Sheriff Robert McCreadie passed the case to the High Court in Edinburgh for sentencing because he felt the five-year maximum he could hand out was not enough.

But Lord Brailsford took a different view, saying he could only sentence Magilton for what he had done, not on speculation about what he might be about to do.

He said: "We cannot have behaviour of that sort. However, I do consider there was no basis for any view to be formed that you were going to commit a further offence of assault.

"That is not what you were charged with. There is no information on which I can form that view and as a matter of law I cannot form that view."

The judge also made an order keeping Magilton under supervision for a year after his release "for the protection of the public" and added his name to the sex offenders register.