A MEDICAL secretary became “besotted” with the orthopaedic surgeon at the Stourbridge clinic where they both worked, forcing him to take legal action to try and get her out of his life.

Wolverhampton Crown Court today heard that Rosemary Parretti started buying large gifts for Dr Muhammed Butt.

She would turn up at his home and she began to follow him in her car - even to Oxford when he gave a medical lecture.

She felt the doctor was her soul mate and they should be together but she effectively became a “pest and a nuisance,” said Andrew Baker prosecuting.

He said Parretti was working at the Heath Lane Consulting Rooms in Stourbridge when Dr Butt moved in and they had a good working relationship but her behaviour then became “peculiar” and she was dismissed.

She continued to harass the doctor, added Mr Baker, who described how Dr Butt had to take out a civil injunction to stop her going to his Stourbridge home.

The court order further ruled Parretti should not go anywhere near the Consulting Rooms or to Russells Hall Hospital.

Mr Baker said Parretti continued to breach the court order by further harassing the doctor and after he made a further complaint to police she was given a suspended prison sentence.

There was then a period where things went quiet, but Parretti again started to follow the doctor who was forced to take different routes to work to avoid her.

“It is not a case where there was violence,” Mr Baker told the court. “He tried to do his best to avoid contact so as not to inflame the situation.”

Parretti, 64, of Newlands Close, Hagley, admitted two charges of breaching her restraining order to stay away from the surgeon and Judge John Warner made a further Hospital Order to enable her to undergo treatment.

He told Parretti the order would resolve her mental disorder adding: “This is the most suitable way to deal with you.

“It is clear you are a very intelligent lady and you know what we are trying to achieve to assist you. I hope you get better and you put these things behind you.”

The Judge said the restraining order would stay in force until further notice as he warned her she must stay away from the doctor’s home, Heath Lane and Russells Hall Hospital.