AN OLD Harlow man has been charged with stalking.

Joel Steadman, aged 35, of Watlington Road, Old Harlow, has been charged with the following.

Between December 26th 2024 and February 23rd, 2025, at Harlow, you pursued a course of conduct, namely sent messages, phone calls, contacted her friend, left parcels on her car, asked his therapist to contact her and posted about her on social media, which amounted to stalking causing a woman serious alarm or distress, which had a substantial adverse effect on her usual day-to-day activities when you knew or ought to have known that your course of conduct would cause alarm or distress.

Steadman’s next court appearance is scheduled for July 23rd, 2025 at Chelmsford Crown Court.

He has been released on conditional bail.