A woman has revealed that prison did not stop her relentless stalker, who continued to bombard her with sexual messages after she was released, and she fears he will start harassing her again once she is released from prison.
Jennifer Pickering, 32, from Leicester, spoke candidly on This Morning about the months of torment she endured at the hands of her stalker Jan Schlossar, 42, who she only met once at her workplace.
Despite receiving a lifetime restraining order and three prison terms, Jennifer fears he will “never give up.”
The recruitment consultant was terrified when police told her Schlossar had moved in just two minutes from her home, and even proposed to her at her workplace.
Jennifer met Schlossar when he applied for a job as a truck driver for which she had posted an ad, in her position at a recruiting company.
Jennifer Pickering, 32, from Leicester, revealed the prison has failed to stop her relentless stalker who continues to bombard her with sexual messages.
She said: “He lived in Peterborough, I was in Leicester at the time.” He wanted to be a driver, but because of the driving hours, you can’t drive more than a certain number of hours a day. But [he] I wanted to add a two hour commute to work on it, which seemed pretty strange to me.
‘He walked into the office and spent four hours filling out an application form, which normally takes 45 minutes. It was a strange situation, he was sitting at the end of our office. He really wanted the job, so when I proposed it, he got the job.’
Jennifer revealed that she had only seen him in person once for 10 minutes, but that she would contact him once a week to check timesheets.
However, he said the red flags started “immediately” because his text messages became increasingly frequent and inappropriate, and he asked Jennifer out just a week after being placed at work.
She said: “To begin with, I felt sorry for him. I thought, “He’s okay, he’s a lone driver and he works long hours.” But then I realized that this is a little more.
‘When I started to feel uncomfortable, we reported it to the police. When reported, he became inappropriate within 48 hours. He would send me pictures of himself dressed in a suit, saying that he was dressed for me.
“He would say, ‘I’m standing outside in the parking lot, are you here?’ There were four or five multi-story parking lots that I would use and he would go to each parking lot and send me a photo, almost making fun of me.
‘The situation escalated and then he showed up at my work. She was standing by the window with flowers and a ring and she wanted to marry me.
Jennifer met Jan Schlossar (pictured) in March 2022, after he applied for a job as a truck driver for which she had posted an ad in her position at a recruiting company.
Jennifer believed he took advantage of the fact that his office was all-female, so he didn’t feel threatened even after he was asked to leave.
She said: “He was told to leave but forced himself to return to the office later that day and that’s when he was arrested.”
Schlossar was given a lifetime restraining order in June 2022, after admitting to two counts of harassment, but two hours after his release from jail in September, he contacted Jennifer again, leading to his arrest and preventive prison.
She said: ‘When they arrested him they found a lot of things on his phone. He had been actively stalking me. He had been staying at the hotel next door but draped over the top of the office. I had been to cafes across the street and on a circling bus so I could look inside the office.
‘When they arrested him, they discovered that he had actually moved, that day, from Peterborough to live two minutes from my house.
‘The police called me and said: ‘We are releasing him.’ By the way, he will live two minutes from your house.”
Jennifer spoke candidly on This Morning about the months of torment she endured at the hands of her stalker Schlossar, 42, who she only met once at her workplace.
Criminal psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das said there are three categories of stalkers who have different motivations.
Jennifer revealed that two hours after her release she bought a phone and called her and said, “Hi honey, it’s me.”
Despite two prison sentences, Schlossar continued to harass Jennifer and is currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for breaching a restraining order in February.
He said he feels like “an easy target” because police had to wait for the law to be broken before they could act.
He added: ‘At one point they told me I needed to collect DNA from under my fingernails because they thought he was going to attack me and that would give them evidence to charge him. But that left me very scared thinking that something was going to have to happen to me.’
Jennifer revealed that the situation has completely changed her, because she used to be very outgoing but now she is much more cautious with people.
Criminal psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das said there are three categories of stalkers who have different motivations.
Rejected stalkers, who refuse to accept the end of a relationship, Resentful stalkers, who seek revenge against a perceived wrong and then an incompetent suitor is someone who lacks social skills and thinks what he is doing is romantic, which he believes. which is relevant to Jennifer’s story. case.
Dr Sohom Das said: “There is a subcategory of incompetent suitor called erotomania, which is a mental illness and I wonder if Jenny’s stalker has this, even though he has never been diagnosed.”
Erotomania is a delusion in which a person believes that another person is in love with them.