A woman in her mid-60s told Christchurch District Court she was afraid of 85-year-old William John Dehart who has been charged with four breaches of a protection order she took out.
"I thought he was caring, but he is interfering, manipulative and humiliating," she told a depositions hearing today before Margo McKay and Percy Acton-Adams, Justices of the Peace.
The woman was the main witness and spent half the morning giving evidence before the elderly man was committed for trial and remanded on bail to a pre-trial conference on September 26.
The police allege he breached the order three times by writing letters to the woman, and once more when he was seen in the neighbourhood.
She told how Mr Dehart had sent her letters - three in one weekend --which she didn't read, and was seen in her street which was in breach of the protection order he was under. She took the letters to the police who advised her not to read them if they upset her.
On another date she phoned the police after seeing Mr Dehart driving in the area.
The court was told that she had known Mr Dehart for 20 years or more, and had lived under the same roof with him.
When she asked him to leave he drove his car onto the lawn under her bedroom window and slept in it all night.
"I don't believe Mr Dehart in any way," the woman told the court.
"I can't understand why this is going on and on. I don't understand what it is all about.
"It is too much. I am afraid of this man - I am afraid of him," she said.
