A FORMER Somerset cricketer whose career was cut short by injury has been repeatedly harassed by a woman.

Adam Dibble was targeted a number of times at the estate agency he now works at in Taunton.

Jane Marie Butcher, 38, of Triscombe Road, Taunton, visited Mr Dibble, 27, at Robert Cooney Estate Agent, in Hammet Street, on several occasions in September.

Butcher took photographs after barging into his office on September 13, then returned twice four days later, shouting at Mr Dibble, banging on the glass to grab his attention and simulating a sex act.

She was back on September 22 and 24, when she shouted and swore at Mr Dibble, and hung around outside shouting at him through the glass and refusing to leave.

On another occasion, Butcher attended the office with lipstick on her finger, which she waved in his face and tried to assault him by swinging her finger in his face in an attempt to wipe it across his face.

Butcher admitted the offence when she appeared at Taunton Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

She also admitted entering The Castle Hotel on September 23; shouting and swearing at staff at Harris Fowler solicitors, in Hammet Street on November 5, causing harassment and alarm; exposing herself to remove a sanitary towel from her underwear, which she swung around her head in an unspecified location in Taunton on September 9; pulling her trousers down and urinating outside Robert Cooney Estate Agent on September 17. The offences were in breach of a Criminal Behaviour Order.

The magistrates deferred sentencing until January 17 and imposed an interim Criminal Behaviour Order banning her from entering or loitering outside a number of locations in Taunton town centre and not to deface any property not belonging to her without written consent from the owner.

Adam Dibble was a promising all-rounder and played four first class games for Somerset between 2011 and 2015 before being released by the county, ending a career dogged by a number of injuries.