'I thought I was going to die': Woman describes how stalker made her life a living nightmare

The police told The Sunday Times that from 2016 to last year, there was an average of about 50 cases of unlawful stalking here each year. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: JEREMY LONG HM
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SINGAPORE - There were mornings when Alicia (not her real name) dreaded getting out of bed because she knew her stalker would be lurking nearby.

For about nine months, the stalker - a security officer in his early 70s at the office building she worked in - would stare at her from across several tables at lunch and make excuses to see her in her office when she was alone. He even followed her home on the bus.

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