Love-struck Scarborough woman jailed after attacking former boss with hammer

Naomi Wheeler, 31, told a psychiatrist she planned to kill her manager by “stoving her head in” and also “hammer to death” her ex-teacher.

Wheeler made a beeline for the Blue Dolphin Holiday Park in Filey where she went looking for her ex-boss with the intention of “causing havoc”, York Crown Court heard.

Wheeler, who was “fixated” and “obsessed” with the victim, ran at her with the hammer and was about to strike when another staff member appeared and took her to ground.

It was the culmination of a four-month stalking campaign in which Wheeler bombarded the woman with phone calls and text messages and even sent her a card with her “scent on it”, said prosecutor Gerald Hendron.

He said Wheeler had been referred to a clinical psychologist to “work with her on relationships and help manage her emotions”.

During her fourth appointment with the psychiatrist on June 28, Wheeler, from Scarborough, told him she had been hearing voices in her head and “wanted to physically harm (the named victim) and another person - a female teacher and (former) deputy head”.

The teacher, who now worked at a university, had taught Wheeler when she was at secondary school.

Wheeler told the shrink she wanted to kill her and “my old boss”.

“She said she wanted to hammer them to death,” said Mr Hendron.