A WOMAN wept in court as she told a jury how she was bombarded with texts, emails and phone calls revealing that her husband had cheated on her.

Debra Lendrum, visibly shaken, relived the terrifying moments she opened the unwanted packages, one of which even contained naked pictures of her husband John.

Driving instructor Veronica Tann, 50, is accused of conduct amounting to stalking Mrs Lendrum during a period where she was having an affair with Debra’s husband John.

Southampton Crown Court heard that Mrs Lendrum was the victim in another serious stalking case a decade ago and she told the court of the impact the new alleged stalking campaign had on her.

She received phone calls telling her “it’s always the wife who’s last to know” and a Valentine’s card in her husband’s writing addressed to another woman.

Mrs Lendrum said: “It’s stuck with me and this will never leave me. I thought I was being targeted again and it scared me because somebody had entered my privacy.

“I can’t help how I respond to those calls – it makes me feel sick and nervous and in fear.

“For six years I had felt safe and now I couldn’t feel safe anymore.”

The court heard that the messages began with anonymous phone calls in summer 2012, which Mrs Lendrum traced back to public telephone boxes in Southampton city centre using Google Maps.

There were additional messages including earring receipts from jewellers and references to Mr Lendrum, also a driving instructor, sleeping with another woman in a Wakefield hotel room.

On Valentine’s Day 2013 a package was sent to Deli Divine, her former business based in Netley, with a doctored image wrongly suggesting Mr Lendrum had a profile on a cottaging website.

After this she confronted Mr Lendrum and he admitted that he had been having an affair with Tann.

Mrs Lendrum said: “Every time this happens I can’t sleep and I can’t eat – it takes me weeks to recover.

“I didn’t have any idea what was going on, it felt like this was somebody who was trying to shatter my life.”

Mr Lendrum gave evidence and admitted that he had lied to the police about having an affair with Tann but eventually came clean.

He told the court that he had sex with Tann in his house and said that knowledge contained in the messages referred to by the unwanted texts could only have come from someone who had been in the building.

This included a reference to rooms at the rear of the property which could not be seen from any other houses.

Tann, of Sengana Close, Botley, denies charges of stalking and perverting the course of justice by making someone give a false statement to police.

Proceeding.