A STALKER from Broadway who breached a restraining order in his bid to pursue a relationship with a titled aristocrat has had his case delayed because a psychiatric report on him was not ready.

Stephen Adamson, aged 43, of Bridgemans Close, was to have been sentenced by Cheltenham Magistrates last Wednesday for breaking the order which banned him from contacting Lady Rosalthe Rundall.

But the clerk of the court announced that Adamson had been excused attendance because the psychiatric report ordered by the court at the last hearing had not yet been prepared. In his absence Adamson, who was represented by solicitor Howard Ogden, was remanded until June 23.

He has admitted breaching the two-year restraining order imposed last August to protect solicitor's wife Lady Rundall, daughter of the 7th Earl of Harrowby. The order was made last year after the court found that Adamson had pestered Lady Rundall for two years after she turned him down for a cleaning job at her home at Aston Sub Edge, near Chipping Campden.

The wife of Francis Rundall, a partner in the leading City of London firm of lawyers Charles Russell, Lady Rosalthe eventually called police because of Adamson's relentless phone calls - up to 16 a day - and letters. On February 11 this year Adamson broke the terms of his restraining order by sending Lady Rundall a Recorded Delivery letter. At the end of the trial, magistrates made an order banning Adamson from contacting Lady Rundall, Francis Rundall and sons Mark Rundall and Jack Rundall for two years and placed him on a 12-month community rehabilitation order.