Creepy superfan convicted of stalking Delta Goodrem by bombarding her with 24 pages of 'aggressive' messages is allowed to cross-examine the singer in court after 'breaching a restraining order'

A creepy superfan convicted of stalking Delta Goodrem was allowed to cross-examine the singer in court after he allegedly breached a restraining order.

James Joseph Lafferty, 47, from Grafton, NSW, has been accused of breaching an Apprehended Violence Order to contact The Voice judge.

On Monday he came face-to-face with Goodrem in court and was allowed to cross-examine her, after he was accused of continuing to message the 36-year-old celebrity despite a restraining order banning all contact.

Goodrem bravely faced her stalker and answered his questions by video-link at Sydney Downing Centre Local Court.

The fan wrote Delta Goodrem hundreds of love poems before turning up to her home on Valentine's Day. He was convicted of three charges related to stalking in February

She told the court Lafferty had sent her a barrage of messages that were occasionally aggressive.

She said that she sought the restraining order for her own protection, 7News reported on Monday.

Lafferty told the court he wasn't aware of the restraining order, 7news reported.

He told the media outside that he hadn't told the police anything.

'All I told them was I wrote her poems. And then they took it upon themselves to go spying through my private thoughts and feelings,' he said.  

Lafferty was arrested on Friday, March 6, for allegedly breaching the restraining order by messaging Goodrem on Instagram. 

In a separate case, Lafferty pleaded guilty in February to three charges related to stalking Goodrem: using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, stalking/intimidation, and failing to comply with a police direction to move on. 

He was charged after he went to Goodrem's Sydney CBD apartment building on Valentine's Day and tried to leave a gift with the concierge.

Singer Delta Goodrem sought an AVO after a barrage of messages 

James Joseph Lafferty, 47, from Grafton outside Sydney Downing Centre Local Court on Monday. He has been charged with breaching his AVO by messaging Delta Goodrem 

He was told she didn't live there but he returned four times that day and was asked to leave. 

The next day Goodrem saw him sitting in a nearby park playing a guitar. When she went to the concierge desk to pick up a dress, he walked past calling out her name and she fled.

When she checked her Instagram account it had been bombarded with messages.  

Lafferty sent her messages on her Instagram account including 'I'm here', 'please come down and meet me', 'I honestly love you Delta my soulmate forever', and 'I'm at concierge'.

'James loves you Delta,' one message read. 

Delta Goodrem bravely faced her stalker in court and said the message bombardment made her feel stressed especially as he knew where she lived

Lafferty went to Goodrem's unit on Valentine's Day and attempted to give her gifts but was asked to leave by the building's concierge

Lafferty at Sydney's Downing Centre court in February when he pleaded guilty to stalking

Police directed him to move on later that evening when he was spotted lurking near the apartment block.  

Over an unspecified time period, Lafferty had sent Goodrem 24 pages of infatuated Instagram messages, 7News reported.

Lafferty was convicted on all three charges and sentenced to an 18-month community correction order and a $600 fine.

The order requires him to be of good behaviour and stay away from Goodrem's home.   

Lafferty has since denied the charges, and said he is innocent.

In October he appeared by video-link in Downing Centre District Court to seek leave to appeal his convictions, telling the court he is innocent of stalking and harassing the pop singer.

Judge Garry Nielson dismissed the application for leave to appeal the convictions as the paperwork was lodged five months following the sentence, which was outside the legal framework, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The 18-month community correction order remains in place as does the AVO banning all contact taken out by the singer.

During his October plea to overturn his conviction, Lafferty told the Downing Centre District Court that he didn't think he had done anything wrong.

'I tried to meet the woman, tried to give her flowers, that's all. I told her I love her, I told her how beautiful she was. What did I do wrong? I did nothing wrong. My whole family has been ruined.'    

The infatuated stalker previously told police he sent Goodrem 300 poems but she had not responded.