A 40-year-old who left his ex-partner “absolutely petrified” after a stalking episode has narrowly avoided jail time. Stephen Weeks, of Broad Street in Lynn, appeared at the town’s magistrates’ court on Thursday to be sentenced after previously pleading guilty to stalking without causing fear, alarm or distress. He had stalked a woman in town on February 17 having previously being involved in a relationship with her, with the victim making an application for a restraining order to be imposed. Magistrates were provided with a pre-sentence report on Weeks by the probation service, but faced a ja…