AN obsessive former CCTV operator from Wrexham who continued to stalk from behind bars has been jailed for another two years.

David Challinor, 48, of Gwersyllt, also received a 15 years restraining order at Caernarfon Crown Court.

Almost a year ago Challinor, who had waged a campaign of harassment against a policeman after being sacked, and stalked a Greggs bakery assistant, was jailed for 18 months.

But barrister Jo Maxwell, prosecuting, said a probation service offender manager who had met Challinor in HM Altcourse jail in Liverpool last September had then received 15 letters in the next two months.

"The contents of the letters were of a graphic sexual nature and escalated in the lewdness,” the prosecutor said.

The woman probation worker felt worried and distressed.

Miss Maxwell said Challinor had claimed he used his job as a CCTV operator to track women and he also confessed to stealing underwear.

In a letter entitled 'Confession' he said he had wanted to rape the bakery worker, 22, and he was sexually aroused by an unknown woman jogger.

Advice had been obtained from a psychologist because of the concern about him.

Counsel said Challinor had been freed from jail in December but days later he went to the police and told them he thought he had breached a restraining order by writing to Greggs worker Chloe Davies.

He had given a letter to a fellow inmate, who was leaving jail, to post to her workplace. Miss Maxwell said a card contained an apology but a note stated his love for Miss Davies, while seeming to blame her for his actions.

It arrived in January. The same month, following his recall on licence to jail, Challinor wrote to the manageress of Wrexham Library informing her that he had previously stalked two women who worked there and naming them. He was “fixated” with them and both felt fear.

Dafydd Roberts, defending, said Challinor had pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order and three fresh charges of stalking.

He had been in the community about a week and was recalled to prison after going to Bangor police station. There was no direct contact with the victims.

Judge Huw Rees said Challinor had an “obsession” with Miss Davies and it was “insidious conduct” by him.

“You fixate on certain individuals,” the judge told Challinor who appeared in court via a video link from jail.

The court heard there was no mental illness or personality disorder.