A 62-YEAR-OLD grand-mother, who conceived a crush on her removal man, has pleaded guilty to harassment after showering him with cards, gifts and telephone calls in a four-month campaign to win his affections.

Salisbury magistrates heard that Margaret Phelps, of Clay's Orchard, Fovant, "misread the signals" when van driver David Conio said she should drop in for a cup of tea if she was ever passing his home in Salisbury's Bemerton Heath.

She began to visit uninvited, to call him into the early hours and to send cards and letters urging him to start a relationship with her.

The court heard that the harassment affected Mr Conio's removals business because he was frightened to answer his telephone in case it was Phelps.

The magistrates sentenced Phelps to 12 months' community rehabilitation and put her under a restraining order, forbidding her to contact Mr Conio for a year.