The mother of a woman who accuses her Policeman ex-boyfriend of stalking her told Magistrates' Court she is "terrified" of him.

The mother made the comments after recounting an incident when she alleged Robert Butterfield followed her and her daughter to a supermarket last summer.

Butterfield, 36, of Old Military Road, St. George's, denies stalking the woman, who is the mother of his child, between July 1 and July 25 last year. He has elected to conduct his own defence.

Before cross-examining the mother of his accuser yesterday, Butterfield finished questioning the complainant herself.

She agreed with Butterfield that he helped her move some belongings at her house on July 3, and that on July 4 they spent the day with their daughter.

The woman told the court Butterfield had not physically forced her to go with him but would get angry if she would not do things with him, which resulted in arguments she did not wish to have.

Butterfield put it to her that she hit him three or four times in the face on July 9. She replied: "No, he would never let me do that," explaining there were occasions she tried to hit him but "I only touched him because he flinches faster than me."

The defendant then asked if she was being coerced by anyone to come to court and testify against him.

She replied: "Yes, I'm forced by myself and my children because I'm tired of the abuse, I'm tired of you stalking me. I'm just tired."

She confirmed that other than this, no one was forcing or coercing her to testify.

Mr. Wolffe has asked this newspaper to exercise discretion in naming the complainant, and an editorial decision has been made not to do so.

Her mother followed her onto the stand as the next witness for the prosecution. She said she had known Butterfield for six or seven years through her daughter. She told the court that for the last three or four years her own relationship with him was not good, and on July 12 last year she obtained a restraining letter against him from the Women's Resource Centre. She also gave evidence that on July 21 she called the Police after she saw him throw a baby stroller at her daughter, which did not hit her.

The day after, she alleged Butterfield walked into her house without knocking and picked up his baby daughter, played with her for a short time and then left.

Later, she said, she and her daughter went to a supermarket and she looked around for him but did not see him.

Asked by Senior Crown counsel Paula Tyndale why she looked around for Butterfield, she replied: "I'm terrified of him, that's why. He makes me very nervous — I'm serious. I would always look around, I don't care where we go, I look around for Robert."

She went on to allege that while she and her daughter and granddaughter were in the supermarket, Butterfield walked in and picked up her granddaughter from the carriage she was in.

She said her daughter told him to put the baby back, and she left because "he makes me very nervous and at that point I had pains in my chest".

In his cross-examination, Butterfield asked her if she had told her daughter to take her children on June 28 and leave her house and go and stay at her father's instead. The witness agreed she had, explaining she had been "very upset" on that date. Mr. Wolffe warned: "Mr. Butterfield, I don't want you to go into what happened on the 28th too much because that's the subject of another charge."

Butterfield is suspended from Bermuda Police Service. The case continues.