A 70-year-old woman on trial for violating an anti-stalking law by bombarding a 79-year-old man with love letters and repeatedly visiting his home should be jailed for 10 months, prosecutors have told a local court.

Prosecutors demanded a 10-month sentence for the septuagenarian defendant, Emiko Suzuki, as her trial opened in the Mito District Court on Friday, saying there was a high chance that she would commit another offence.

According to the indictment, Suzuki forced her way into the man’s home on seven occasions between July 12, 2006, and Oct. 31 that year, despite being handed a stalking prohibition order by the Ibaraki Prefectural Public Safety Commission.

Prosecutors said the woman sent 206 love letters to the 79-year-old man and cleaned his family’s grave site 85 times. After the prohibition order was issued, the woman demanded 1.25 million yen from the man for the amount she paid to get a driver’s license to travel to his home and for the gasoline costs.

Later, she reportedly started sending threatening letters to the man, saying, “If it comes down to it, you could die,” the indictment said.

Suzuki reportedly met the man, who was looking for a marriage partner, through the introduction of an acquaintance in 1997.

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