Online stalker jetted in from Chicago

An online stalker who flew to the UK to terrorise a woman he met on the internet in America has been jailed for seven years. Edward Best, 26, threatened his victim with a hammer and barricaded her in a house. Police launched a manhunt for him after she escaped by mouthing ‘Help’ through a window. He had flown from the United States to Manchester to stalk a different woman who he had been in an online relationship with. She was…