PIANIST Graeme McNaught, who harassed best-selling author Janice Galloway, said his motive was "to try to see my son".

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland lecturer faced five charges of acting in a threatening and abusive manner and placing Ms Galloway in a state of fear and alarm.

The 54-year-old was found to have carried out the acts, but escaped punishments after Sheriff Ray Small decided three reports following a medical examination by a doctor and a psychiatrist showed there was "no need".

Sheriff Small said there was, however, "the understanding" that he keep in contact with the mental health group he was attending "on a voluntary basis for support" and that if they notice a change in his mental health "they can take action themselves".

Mr McNaught, speaking from his flat near Mount Vernon, Glasgow, who had been involved in a six year on-off relationship with Ms Galloway during which their son James, 22, was born, insists he has "no mental health problems whatsoever".

He said: "I admitted I carried out the acts, I told them exactly what I had done. A voluntary keeping in contact with mental health practitioners means I can if I want and I can stay away if I want. I don't have to go anywhere near the doctors because it is voluntary but I have chosen to do it in order to please Janice Galloway and Ray Small."

He admitted going to Miss Galloway's home after the case, to deliver a brown envelope containing a pink A4 sheet "offering friendship" and then left in a taxi. He became emotional when he added: "There is no way I would want my son's mother to suffer in any way whatsoever. I've tried to look after her. And this is what I get back, harassment orders, handcuffs, locked wards."

"There is no reason we should not be friends, and partying right now, saying 'that that was really weird, was it not?' Let's just love one another as everybody should and let's get James up from London, let's have a party and let's just celebrate life."