David Walliams's stalker sectioned

Sarah Bartholomew, the woman who stalked David Walliams, is to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, The Mirror reports.

The 29-year-old former veterinary nurse admitted to sending the Little Britain star a string of threatening messages, one of which read: "I have to have you at any cost. I will kill or abduct you to stop you seeing anyone else."

Bartholomew will remain in a psychiatric hospital until doctors decide she poses no danger to herself or others.

District Judge Adrian Turner stated: "I am quite sure a medical order is the appropriate action."

A judge had previously said that Bartholomew had become "delusional about her relationship with David Walliams".