'I will always find you'; Stalker followed woman for 10 years - from India to across U.S.
Jitender Singh, 32, sentenced to 17 years in prison
The Associated Press and Postmedia Network
First posted: Friday, April 29, 2016 01:31 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, April 29, 2016 01:50 PM EDT
MCKINNEY, Texas - He won't be able to creep her anymore where he's going.
A 32-year-old Los Angeles man who stalked a woman for almost a decade has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Prosecutors say Jitender Singh and the unnamed woman were college classmates in Delhi, India. After she refused a 2006 marriage proposal, he starting following her home and threatened her.
When she moved to New York to continue school the next year, he also tried to enrol but was turned down.
When she moved to California, Singh moved there too, tracking her to her new home.
"You can't hide from me. I will always find you," prosecutors say he told her, according to the Dallas Morning News.
In 2011, she moved to a new job in Plano, Texas, where Singh continued to harass her over the phone and online.
He set up a false credit tracking account to find out her address in 2014, then hired an unwitting locksmith to break him into her apartment.
A suspicious neighbour called 911 and police reportedly found Singh in the parking lot with a bunch of her things.
"The jury put an end to this victim's decade-long stalking nightmare," district attorney Greg Willis said in a statement to the Dallas Morning News.
Singh plans to appeal the verdict.
