Obsession. Tennis stars
Steffi Graf and Monica Seles
are among the many celebrities who have been victims of obsessive fans. But hundreds of ordinary people receive similar unwanted attention without the publicity and the money to take on their pursuers.
British Telecom deals with 176,000 malicious telephone calls in a year, while some obsessed people go to greater lengths - delivering furniture to a victim's home, for example.
The law as it stands offers little help to the harassed.
Injunctions are costly and not always effective, while the maximum penalty for misuse of the telephone is £ 1,000. In this programme Sarah Barclay asks if Britain should introduce anti-stalking laws, which have been used successfully in the USA. Producer Kevin Sutcliffe
Editor Peter Horrocks