“The places I liked always became marred by murder.”
In February last year, you’ll remember, a woman was charged with the unlawful stalking of three-time world champ Mick Fanning, breaking into his Hamptons-themed three-storey house with intent and two counts of stealing.
Sarah Foote, a thirty-nine-year-old from Ballina, “an obsessed mother” according to one newspaper, was accused of following Fanning between January 29 and February 4, the break-in of Mick’s pretty beachfront joint in Bilinga allegedly happening on Feb 2.
Fanning saw the mysterious strawberry blonde at the top of the stairs, asked her to beat it, which she did.
Foote was accused of sending four letters (“Rambling hand-written letters with accusations of pedophilia, declarations of love for Fanning and thoughts of wanting to kill him”), three by post, one personally delivered.
Each included hand-drawn love hearts, a self-portrait by Ms Foote, and one contained a beaded bracelet.
Some excerpts:
“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.
“Nasty voices … your voice gets nasty too sometimes …”
“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.”
“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 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.”
The crown prosecutor said Foote now “acknowledges going to his house was going a bit far.”
The judge hit Foote with a fifteen-month prison sentence with immediate release on parole.
Friends of Foote, meanwhile, have rallied around their pal.
“Fucking asshole rich dude with his expensive lawyer and douche bag reporters shaming you like this,” wrote one. “So so sorry this is all happening sweet heart. Hope u ok. Stay strong, and big hugs and hankies from me…”