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A STALKING suspect stunned a court yesterday by singing Frank Sinatra’s My Way in the dock.

Jeronimo Bouceiro, 40, belted out the classic as he concluded his defence at his trial.

(Image: Perthshire Picture Agency/Graeme Hart)

Bouceiro followed Scots police officer Gillian Farnington to Turkey and shocked her by arriving in the middle of her holiday, a court heard.

He admitted buying a jewellery box in Scotland and taking it more than 2000 miles before presenting it to Gillian with a single peanut in it.

Bouceiro claimed that Gillian had become interested in him because he had brought lemons back from his home in Portugal and made lemonade for him.

Yesterday, he asked Sheriff Michael Fletcher to find him not guilty of stalking her and causing her to live in fear.

He then launched into the final verse of the Sinatra song. Bouceiro said: “For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught.

“To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels. The record shows, I took the blows, and did it my way.” The trial earlier heard Bouceiro admit making the trip to Turkey and complaining to his victim about how much it was costing at the five-star resort in Fathiye.

He told the trial he turned up at her hotel while she was on holiday with her son and left the boxed peanut after she ignored him.

“She saw me,” he told Perth Sheriff Court. “Her attitude was to put her nose up and pretend not to see me. I sent her a text saying please come and meet me. I said the sun makes people good or nice. I said, ‘This place is expensive – just come and talk to me and I’ll leave straight away’.”

Gillian said she felt sick when he appeared at her hotel expressing his feelings for her.

The engineer claimed that Gillian, his former landlady, had pestered him for sex after being impressed by his lemons and loungewear. Bouceiro is alleged to have started stalking her after she took him in as a lodger.

The police officer said she quickly asked Bouceiro to move out of her home because of his bizarre behaviour. She told the court she was frightened of him and had never had any interest in him sexually.

Bouceiro, of Kinross, denies stalking Gillian between May 2011 and March last year.

He denies accessing private documents to establish her holiday destination and carrying out surveillance to find out her new address and phone number.

Sheriff Fletcher will deliver his verdict at a later date.