A BROADWAY man accused of waging a five-year campaign of harassment against the titled wife of a wealthy solicitor was again refused bail by a crown court judge this week.

Lawyers representing Stephen Adamson made a behind-closed-doors application for bail to Judge Jamie Tabor QC but it was rejected.

Adamson, aged 45, of Broadway, is currently in custody for psychiatric tests following a medical report which suggests he is suffering from a rare mental disorder called 'erotomania.'

Victims of the condition, also known as de Clerambault's Syndrome, become convinced that someone of a higher social status is secretly in love with them - a state of mind which exactly fits the pattern of Adamson's offending.

He is due to be sentenced at Cheltenham Magistrates court on August 16.

He was alleged to have first begun pestering Lady Rosalthe Rundall, 50, of Aston Sub Edge, near Chipping Campden, in 2001 after she turned him down for a job as a handyman at her Cotswold home.

Despite repeated prosecutions since then he has persisted in his campaign of harassment, contacting her and her family.