After his second stalking conviction, a St. Brendan's patient will be spending the next year in prison.

In a passion filled session at Magistrates' Court, a crying Markos Wold was confronted by the mother of the victim he had violently harassed.

"This man threatened my daughter's life," the mother told Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves on Friday.

Wold, 22, stalked his ex-girlfriend from May 20 to May 27 of this year.

During that time, the Hamilton parish man had violently breached his restraining order, Crown counsel Charmaine Smith told the court.

The menacing behaviour began when Wold phoned the woman under a series of aliases. First he claimed to be "a friend of a friend" and then a local footballer. Recognising his voice the victim asked "Marcus what do you want?"

Wold replied: "You b****, you got me locked up. How did you know it was me?"

Wold's alarming behaviour swiftly escalated when he jumped out in front of her car when the victim was entering the Bermuda College grounds, where she was studying in the Police Cadet programme.

She locked her doors and drove away but Wold then followed on a bike.

While he rode behind the car he yelled a series of obscenities at the woman before driving off.

Wold pleaded guilty to the charges and admitted calling her and said: "I only wanted to say hello. She was my first love"

But Wold denied trying to see the woman, and said: "I did nothing wrong."

Wold and the victim had been in an 18-month relationship when both were students at CedarBridge Academy. In 1997, the victim had ended the relationship because of Wold's behaviour.

The Holmes Williams and Purvey employee was convicted of stalking the woman, for the first time, in December 2000, after similar harassment. As a result he was ordered into the care of St. Brendan's Hospital as an in-patient under a Section 33 order of the Mental Health Act.

In what she called a week long ordeal, the victim's mother told The Royal Gazette that the twenty year Police Cadet was frightened wherever she went.

She had received continuous threatening calls from Wold, even while he was in St. Brendan's, and eventually switched cars with her mother from fear of Wold finding her.

"My whole family was threatened by him," said her mother.

During the course of the sentencing Wold repeatedly yelled at both Mr. Greaves and the victim's mother, and at one point broke into tears.

"I haven't had my medicine for 24 hours," said Wold, who claimed that he needed to return to St. Brendan's for treatment.

Mr. Greaves said: "You will get your medicine where you are going."

He also told Mr. Greaves that he was frightened of going to Westgate where "there's people who'll hurt me".

Wold was also charged with the possession of a dangerous weapon.

Police caught him with the machete strapped to the inside of his inner thigh under his trousers.

He had told the officers: "I needed it for my protection."

Wold was also convicted of stealing a purse from a waitress in 2001, while he had been a patient at St. Brendan's.

Mr. Greaves did not accept any of his excuses and sentenced Wold to 12 months on each count to run concurrently.

A pleased mother told The Royal Gazette that Thursday night was the first night in a long time her family could sleep, because they knew he was arrested.

She said they were happy that a "threat to society" was finally in prison.