Dundee star cleared of stalking

Jun 5 2009

A FOOTBALLER was cleared of stalking his beautiful young ex-girlfriend.

Melissa Colborne, 21, claimed that Dundee striker Mickael Antoine-Curier used a credit card to force open the back door of her home in Ayr in the early hours of the morning and then tried to access her computer to see who she had been contacting on the net.

She claimed to have spotted a man in the home she shared with her parents after hearing footsteps enter the computer room.

Miss Colborne went on to say that she then saw a man from behind walking from the computer room to the rear of the house.

She told the court: “At first I thought it was my ex-boyfriend Mickael, he had been calling me all day and I didn’t answer any of his calls. He had also been sending me text messages.

“I thought it was Mickael. It was just his height.”

She said that she and her older sister Hannah went out of the house and saw Antoine-Curier’s car parked around the corner just 10 metres away.

The car was empty, she said, but after they returned to the house they could hear it being driven away.

The couple had been together since November 2007 and during that time they lived in the former Hibs player’s flat in Edinburgh.

They separated a week before the alleged incident.

And Miss Colborne admitted to the court that she could not be positive that the man in her house in the early hours of August 28 was Antoine-Curier.

Procurator fiscal Hayley Robertson withdrew the Crown case following Miss Colborne’s evidence and the footballer was acquitted by Sheriff David Hall.