... written 800 letters and made numerous phone calls to the victim. The House of Lords stated that silent phone calls can amount to an assault and this can be seen in the cases of R v. Ireland and Burstow. Usually it must be made certain that the victim feared an immediate infliction of force at that moment. A key example of this is in the case of Smith v. Chief Superintendent, Woking police station (1983). In this case, the defendant was standing inside the victim garden staring her through a window; although the victim was safely locked inside she still feared an instant danger of force. It was said by the court of appeal that: "It was clearly a situation where the basis of the fear which was instilled in her, was that she did not know what the defendant was going to do next. But that, whatever he might ...

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