A WOMAN who harrassed a psychologist for 16 years after falling in love with him during a work placement produced a bizarre stalker's manual which she sent to him.

Anna Smirnoff inundated the married dad, his family and colleagues with obscene letters, telephone calls and e-mails during a chilling campaign.

At Newcastle Crown Court, prosecutor Glen Gatland read a document entitled "The Art of Stalking" which Smirnoff, a qualified psychologist who called herself a "warrior" in correspondence, had sent to her alleged victim in 2002.

It said: "The art of stalking is a set of procedures and attitudes that enables a warrior to get the best out of any conceivable situation.

"Principles of the art of stalking.

"1. Warriors choose their battleground. A warrior never goes into battle without seeing what the surroundings are.

"2. Discard everything unnecessary is the second principle of the art of stalking. A warrior does not complicate things, he aims at being simple.

"3. A warrior must be willing and ready to make his last stand here and now, not in a helter skelter way.

"4. A warrior relaxes and abandons himself. He fears nothing. Only then will the power that gets human beings open the road for a warrior.

"5.When faced with odds that cannot be dealt with warriors retreat for a moment. They let their minds meander, they occupy their time with something else, anything will do.

"6. Warriors comprise their times, even an instant counts. In a battle for your life a second is an eternity, an eternity which may decide the outcome. A warrior aims at succeeding. Warriors do not waste an instant.

"7. A stalker never pushes himself to the front, he is always looking on from behind the scenes.

"Applying these brings three results.

"1. Stalkers learn never to take themselves seriously. They learn to laugh at themselves. If they are not afraid of being a fool they can fool anyone.

"2. Stalkers learn to have endless patience. Stalkers are never in a hurry.

"3. Stalkers learn to have endless capacity to improvise."

In the guide Smirnoff also stated "the most effective strategy for stalking" could be summed up with the following words - control, discipline, forbearance, timing, will, petty tyrant.

In a separate heading "precepts of the role" Smirnoff states warriors are on a path to solving a mystery which in reality can never be solved.

After hearing the document read aloud in court, the victim, who has told of his fear Smirnoff will pursue him for the rest of his life, told jurors: "It struck me Miss Smirnoff clearly recognises she is behaving in a manner of a stalker.

"She has thought a great deal about this.

"I am fearful because of what I can deduce from it, in so far as it confirms what Miss Smirnoff has done to me and my family and colleagues has been planned, calculated.

"She has insight into what she has been doing.

"I find it exceptionally chilling."

Smirnoff denies four charges of harrassment relating to the main alleged victim and three of his colleagues.

The trial continues.