Alleged stalker Dwight Hatherley harassed his victim on five separate occasions before Police took up the case, a court heard yesterday.

The alleged victim told Magistrates' Court yesterday she was "hit on'' twice on Elbow Beach and twice after picking up her daughter from the Kiddy Academy nursery in Warwick.

And she said Hatherley, of Dudley Hill, Paget, also harassed her in the Phoenix Annex on Reid Street as she went shopping with her three-year-old daughter on Christmas Eve.

The woman, a 29-year-old German, broke down in tears on the stand during Hatherley's trial yesterday.

And she said the defendant first approached her outside the nursery and said: "I've been watching you for a while.'' The woman, who made a Police complaint after the final incident, said she first met Hatherley outside the nursery last October.

She said the man told her he had been an admirer for some time and approached her again at the nursery a couple of weeks later. And the woman said the man promised he would "show her the world'' after sneaking up on her as she sunbathed on Elbow Beach last December.

She added: "I turned and he was right next to me, kneeling there. It was again very uncomfortable because he was very quiet.'' She told the court that 34-year-old Hatherley left the beach when she said she "would call someone''.

And she said she was scared by his "weird staring'' -- and found a similar-looking man in her house following a break-in on the same night.

Police then compiled a computer-generated "wanted poster''.

But defence lawyer Richard Horseman pointed out the alleged victim did not immediately call 911 when she spotted Hatherley in the Phoenix on Christmas Eve.

Hatherley had been shopping with his son when he bumped into the woman on the escalators, allegedly asking her: "Why are you angry with me? I just want to talk to you.'' And she said Hatherley subjected her to a terror car ride days after Christmas, after again spotting her on Elbow Beach with her daughter and a friend.

The woman claimed the accused rode alongside her car as she drove home along Rural Hill, swearing at her and accusing her of "f***ing around''.

She added: "My daughter was crying. I would say to him just to leave us alone. He would say I know you are `f***ing around'. You are f***ing black men. You are f***ing white men.'' Mr. Horseman, cross-examining, asked if it was a "coincidence'' that she had bumped into Hatherley at the Phoenix.

But she said: "There must be many coincidences, I guess.'' The lawyer also asked why she did not call Police immediately.

"I didn't want to make a big issue and I didn't want to go for the whole court thing,'' she said.

She broke down in tears after being asked to clarify her answer by Magistrate Archibald Warner.

"I didn't want to put my daughter in danger,'' she said.

Hatherley told the court he did not speak to the alleged victim until the first time he saw her on Elbow Beach, in early December.

And he said the woman started screaming at him the second time they met on Elbow Beach, when he was talking to a friend at the top of the beach's access road.

"Gibberish, I guess you could call it,'' he said. "She said I should stop trying to meet her and I should stop following her.'' Mr. Warner will deliver his verdict next Friday.