A STALKER who was placed on a curfew for hounding the leader of Glasgow City Council was back in court after she removed her tag.

Amanda McCutcheon targeted Councillor Susan Aitken for three months with texts, letters and ventured up at the City Chambers in Glasgow demanding to speak to her.

Last month she was given a community payback order, to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and placed on a curfew.

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Today at Glasgow Sheriff Court she admitted breaching the order by cutting her tag off.

The court heard she was “frustrated” about a minor matter relating to her benefits and admitted to her supervising officer that she had removed the device.

Sheriff Lindsay Wood said “I appreciated you need help, not punishment” and allowed the order to continue for the 46-year-old to complete the unpaid work and continue with counselling.

He added on 14 days to her curfew after the tag was removed on June 15, and she will receive a new one.

McCutcheon, from Dennistoun, was convicted guilty of stalking Ms Aitken over a three month period between January and March, this year.

The mother-of-two sent the politician a letter with the phrase “I was wondering if you have a death wish” and “You know the old saying Susan, you can run but you cannot hide”.

She also posted comments on social media describing Ms Aitken as “psycho Susan” and told a social worker and police that she was going to attack her.

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Ms Aitken said when she was shown the letter she was disturbed and added: “ I was taken aback, it wasn’t like any letter that I received before. It was definitely an implicit threat".

The letter, from McCutcheon, referred to problems she had with her home.

The court heard that McCutcheon also visited the City Chambers in February and shouted and swore at staff there.

Ms Aitken told the court that because of McCutcheon's stalking campaign she no longer travels by public transport and never holds surgeries on her own.

In evidence McCutcheon said she had had housing problems for seven years She told defence lawyer Ian Sievwright: “By the time I sent this letter, I was so angry and frustrated with the system, the people I had been dealing with.

“I had no option but to contact the leader of Glasgow City Council with an angry letter warning that there was a situation arising and it wasn’t going to be good.”