'Scary' stalker banned from staring at women

A serial stalker has been given an Asbo which bans him from looking at women. Gabriel Tabar was handed the order after traumatising more than 30 women over the last six years.

If the 64-year-old stares at, follows, approaches, communicates with or confronts women in the next five years, he could be hauled before a judge.

A total of 32 women and girls have made complaints against him since 2004. He would ‘stare fixedly’ at them because he knew he was having ‘a grave effect’ on them, said Leanne Woods, prosecuting.



His stalking tactics included following the women around before then deliberately ‘cutting them up’ by suddenly walking in front of them.

On another occasion, he put his hands on the bonnet of the car of one of his victims and stared at her intently. One woman said: ‘He is a very frightening man because you don’t know where he is going to turn up. You don’t see him and then suddenly he is two or three feet away. We don’t know where it’s going or what he might do.’

Tabar, of Maidenhead, did not attend the hearing at East Berkshire Magistrates’ Court in Bracknell. However, in a statement to police he said his victims were being ‘falsely malicious’ and it was a coincidence that he was passing them.