Taylor Swift’s stalker sentenced to 30 months in prison

Eric Swarbrick, a man from Austin in Texas, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for stalking and sending threatening letters as well as emails to Big Machine Records, former record label to Taylor Swift, US singer.

Swarbrick was given the sentence by a federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, after pleading guilty during a hearing on Wednesday.

The term of the sentence includes three years of supervised release, which was agreed upon by prosecutors in a plea agreement that Swarbrick entered in 2019.

A compliant filed before the court claimed that Swarbrick sent more than 40 letters and emails to the record label in 2018, asking the company’s CEO to introduce him to Swift.

It also claimed that that the letters became “more violent and sexual” over time.

Swarbrick was also said to have driven personally to Nashville to deliver the letters himself to the record label on three occasions.

He was said to have been arrested during one of his visits to the record label’s premises in 2018 but was later released from police custody after which he had continued with his letters

Swift had last year expressed concern over her safety amid Swarbrick’s ceaseless letters, with the latter said to have once threatened to take his life if his wish was not granted.

“My fear of violence has continued into my personal life. I carry QuikClot army grade bandage dressing, which is for gunshot or stab wounds,” she had told Elle in 2019.