A 23-year-old man admitted prowling outside a woman’s house, intruding on her privacy and stalking her after she refused to give over her telephone number.Magistrates’ Court heard Jay Cody Steede, of Farmstead Lane, Somerset, approached Zolita Dill on an unknown date in May while she was sitting in her car waiting for a friend.He asked for her number, but she refused to give it to him, said prosecutor Robert Welling.Steede left the woman alone when her friend got into the car.Later on that night Ms Dill returned to drop off her friend at Fairhaven Lane and waited in the vehicle until she was safely inside.Steede approached her vehicle again and stuck his left arm into her car touching her right leg. Ms Dill wound up the window and drove away once Steede removed his arm.Two weeks later Ms Dill heard a knock at her bedroom window and believed it to be her son.She opened the door and found Steede outside, the court heard.Ms Dill slammed the door shut and the defendant lost his footing and fell backwards.Steede continued to try and open the doors for the next 45 minutes, but Ms Dill locked all the windows and doors to secure the home. Someone eventually came to the home and Steede fled.On July 17, the woman saw Steede looking through the window of the kitchen door. He continued to knock and look through windows at the home.Ms Dill called the police and officers found the defendant hunched over looking through her kitchen window. They shouted to him, which startled him and forced him to turn around.He was cautioned, but didn’t answer to why he was on the property.Steede was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and found to be “of sound mind”. He was then taken to Hamilton Police Station.Defence lawyer Peter Farge said Steede has been suffering from serious psychological problems, particularly after being involved in a high-speed smash that claimed the life of 15-year-old Krystle Maya Babon in 2005.Steede was in breach of his curfew at the Co-Ed facility at the time. After the crash he ran from the scene, but was caught nearby.A woman described to the court as Steede’s mother, said he had been meeting with therapists on a weekly basis.She said she believed he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.Mr Welling said: “Clearly in the circumstances there are concerns about the safety of the complainant in this case.“While the on-call psychologist has assessed him as being of sound mind, there are still a number of unanswered questions in relation to his behaviour.”He said stalking was a very serious act, which was often debilitating for the victim. It is also something difficult to stop the perpetrator from doing it again, he added.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said the offences of prowling started prior to the accident, including convictions in 2000 and 2003. He said Steede had “a history of breaking into people’s houses and dwellings, particularly females”.“The fact of the matter, as far as I am concerned, [is that] he has serious psychological problems that need to be addressed and that are being addressed. However he continues to commit serious offences and that is where we differ because the problem is not whether he is maliciously doing these things.“The fact is he is behaving this way and putting the public, including females, at risk and it’s my duty to make sure the public is protected.”Speaking more generally on the topic of mental illness, Mr Warner said: “Very often it’s found there are not adequate medical health facilities in Bermuda.“And I have mentioned it over and over and unfortunately very often we have got to use remand in the prisons as an avenue to get the desired mental health assistance.”He ordered a social inquiry report on the defendant and remanded Steede in custody until September 19.