A SERIAL stalker told a court on Friday how he threatened to sexually mutilate TV vet Trude Mostue.

John Maynard made the terrifying phone call to Miss Mostue - who shot to fame in Vets in Practice - just months after being released from prison.

The Norwegian-born star told police she was "very worried" when 55-year-old Maynard from North Yorkshire called her Bristol practice in April 2001, pretending to be a friend.

He told her colleague Maria Lowe: "If when I meet her I will harm her".

Miss Mostue took a call from Maynard a month later when he threatened to sexually mutilate her.

She told him: "You should be aware that all the phone calls are recorded by the police ." Maynard put the phone down.

On Saturday night he was back in Holme House prison, Stockton, waiting to be sentenced in three weeks after interviews with probation officers.

The fabricator of Portland Street, York, appeared at Teesside Crown Court on Friday where he admitted five charges of harassing Miss Mostue and four other women including a Miss Cleavage entrant, a managing director, and a shopgirl who sold him a new outfit.

He pleaded guilty to putting Miss Mostue in fear of violence by harassment and similar charges against storegirl Theresa Paulin; tyre depot manageress Paula Metcalfe; pub worker Alison Taylor who entered a cleavage contest and company boss Adrienne Bennett.

He denied two charges of making threats to kill her and a sixth woman last July and October, and the charges were left on the court file.

The court heard how Maynard had numerous convictions in England and Germany for terrorising women and had served a five-year sentence for making a threat to kill.

A psychiatrist is keen to treat Maynard as an outpatient if he avoids prison, said Dan Cordey, defending.

But he said that bespectacled Maynard was realistic about facing another jail sentence.