Sarah Anne Foote: Stalker's chilling message to Mick Fanning

An obsessed mum sent chilling messages to world champion surfer Mick Fanning before appearing at the top of the stairs in his house. READ THE MESSAGES

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AN obsessed mother told world champion surfer Mick Fanning she “occasionally wanted to kill” him in four chilling ramblings in less than a month.

Sarah Anne Foote’s crazed fixation ended when Mr Fanning found her in his house on February 2 last year.

When Mr Fanning spotted her at the top of the stairs he asked her to leave and she did so without incident.

Three of the notes Foote sent Mr Fanning were sent by post. A fourth was hand delivered.

They contained hand-drawn pictures of love hearts and a drawing of herself. One contained a beaded bracelet.

Sarah Foote with barrister Jason Buckland. Picture: Lea Emery.

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In one note she proclaimed her love for the surfer and, in others, described smelling a rotting corpse and meeting a “kiddie killer”.

“For some reason (which I have (sic) a stab in the dark (pardon pun) at), we got on so much better when I thought you were someone else,” she wrote.

On another occasion she wrote: “Nasty voices … your voice gets nasty too sometimes …”

Another note said: “I occasionally want to kill you … to end our occasional miserable bullshit … I wouldn’t want to end our best times though. Because I have so much love for you and I would like to see what’s in store for future for us two.”

Foote pleaded guilty in the Southport District Court on Friday to unlawful stalking and entering a dwelling with intent.

Judge Nicole Kefford sentenced the 38-year-old to 15 months in prison with immediate release on parole.

She has spent two days in custody.

Crown prosecutor Matt Hynes said Foote began sending Mr Fanning letters “best described as ramblings” on January 14 last year.

He said the pair did not know each other although Foote had a different impression.

“She made admissions (to police) to the offending despite having a distorted view of her relationship with the complainant,” he said.

“She acknowledges going to his house was going a bit far.”

Mr Hynes said it was clear Foote was suffering from schizophrenia at the time.

Defence barrister Jason Buckland said Foote was getting her illness under control.

“The offending can be seen as occurring at a time where she was abusing alcohol and was suffering her well-established schizophrenia, which was not being medicated,” he said.

Mr Buckland said now she was under medication Foote was able to “see the inappropriateness of her conduct”.

He said Foote now lived with her mother and four-year-old daughter.

EXCERPTS FROM THE MESSAGES

● You really are a strange man.

● What is wrong with you? Or for that matter, what is right with you?

● I can be a real bitch.

● The places I liked always became marred by murder.

● I have smelt a murdered corpse in Rockhampton. She was very stinky, worse than any road kill I have ever smelt.

● I met a kiddie killer, she smothered her baby. Only spent a year in a psychiatric hospital, then was released only to murder another child.

● IDK (I don’t know) when we will incarnate again together in this world.

● I love you.

● I also like looking at your photos. Especially in your book … I know that you know what I just did.