A WOMAN claimed she was repeatedly followed by a pensioner who hid in bushes during an alleged two-year stalking campaign.

The 27-year-old stated that Dennis Hislop 78, kept tabs on her around Glasgow’s Dalmarnock and Parkhead.

She said Hislop - who she knew - would be near her as she walked her dog up to three times a day.

He was alleged to have posted a note through her door and sent her text messages despite pleas for him to stop.

The woman added that Hislop also concealed himself near bushes at a car park which faced her home around 10 times.

Hislop is on trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court accused of stalking the woman between February 2020 and June 2022.

He is also accused of three charges of breaching his bail conditions by contacting her.

The court heard from the woman who stated the she had previously met Hislop.

She stated that she did not want any contact with Hislop after an unspecified incident in Loch Lomond in 2020.

However, the court was shown numerous texts alleged to have been sent by Hislop.

This included him saying that he “loved” her and also asking for a “peck.”

Another stated that the woman was his “reason to live.”

Prosecutor Jessica McGowan asked the witness how she felt about receiving the messages and she replied that she was "annoyed" which turned into anger.

The woman said that she would leave her house three times a day to walk her dog.

She recalled seeing Hislop at roads around her house.

Miss McGowan asked how often the woman would see Hislop.

She replied: "A lot I would say."

Miss McGowan asked: "Were you walking the same route every day?"

The woman replied: "At the start but eventually I tried to change my route."

Miss McGowan asked: "How did that make you feel?"

The woman said: "Nervous and a wee bit scared."

She added that she was followed by Hislop between May 2021 to June 2022.

Miss McGowan asked if there were occasions where Hislop was not immediately obvious to her.

She replied: "Yes, sometimes he would hide in bushes...he would go inside bushes and hide."

The witness stated that this was at a car park in the Emirates Arena which looked on to the back of her home where her bedroom was situated.

Miss McGowan asked the woman how many times she noticed Hislop hiding near the bushes.

She stated: "I would say quite a few...maybe 10 times."

The woman claimed that she also walked through the Emirates Arena car park with her dogs to get to the park.

The fiscal depute said: "You may be asked for 18 months there was a man making you scared or nervous hiding in bushes, why did you walk through the car park?"

The woman said: "That's the only way to get to the places I take my dogs walks, it didn't matter what way I would go he would appear in the different direction."

The court heard that the woman did speak to the police on a number of occasions at the time.

Jurors were shown a note allegedly put through the woman's door.

It read: "No phone, they have it, not got your number, D."

The court was also shown clips and pictures taken by the woman of a man believed to be Hislop.

One showed a man appearing in bushes while Miss McGowan put to the witness that in a video, he was "hovering" near Celtic Park.

CCTV from the stadium was also shown to jurors where the woman pointed out Hislop walking across the car park and leave in his vehicle.

Jurors earlier heard from a member of staff at the Emirates Arena Robert Reilly, 42, who claimed that he was aware Hislop parked his car across the road and hid in a bush.

Lee Smith, 52, a director of a building supply company in the area, stated that Hislop would park his car outside the premises which he found "quite odd."

Miss McGowan asked the woman the effect the incidents have had on her.

She replied: “I was always looking over my shoulder and I was nervous to go out.”

David McCaig, defending, put it to the woman that she was exaggerating.

He also stated that the footage that the woman took showed Hislop walking away from her.

The woman replied: “If someone is recording you that you don’t want recorded you are going to turn and walk away.”

She later denied claims that it was the woman who was the person in bushes recording Hislop.

Miss McGowan lastly asked the woman: “Would it be odd for someone who had seven-and-a-half minutes of evidence not to give that to the police?”

The woman said: “It would be odd.”

Miss McGowan said: “This evidence that exposes you as the stalker?”

The woman said: “Yes, I even let them look through my phone.”

The trial continues on Monday before Sheriff Michael Hanlon.