An obsessed farmhand jailed for life for brutally bludgeoning a stable girl to death 20 years ago has been sent back to prison for stalking another woman, after he moved to Mullion.

Stephen Webber was 39 years old when he was given a life sentence for murdering 27 year old Jessie Hurlstone who worked at the racing stables of former Grand National winner Jimmy Frost in Devon.

Exeter Crown Court heard how he followed Jessie around ‘like a puppy’ and warned her he would kill her if she went out with anyone else.

The loner battered her to death with more than 30 blows from an iron bar used as a tool to shoes horses as she lay in bed in her caravan near Buckfastleigh in November 1995.

The murder happened three weeks after she began seeing a local man.

The judge at his trial, Mr Justice Rougier, told him:”However that girl treated you, it was no excuse of mitigation for battering the life out of her in this terrible act of revenge.”

Now it has been revealed that Webber has been living in Mullion after he was released from that life sentence.

But between April and July this year he stalked another woman over a four month period in west Cornwall.

Magistrates in Truro heard he spied on the latest victim, loitered around her, made unwanted contact, became possessive and intrusive towards her.

Webber, now 59, admitted the charge and magistrates jailed him for ten weeks, also making an indefinite restraining order banning him from any contact with his latest victim.