'Beautiful, brilliant' Bernardo fangirl wants dangerous offender status ditched

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A woman enraptured by caged serial killer Paul Bernardo is fighting her dangerous offender status.

Michelle Erstikaitis, 39, was convicted earlier this month of assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm and possession of a weapon.

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She was found not guilty of attempted murder.

Her dangerous offender designation came in 2011, but a Toronto judge told her Wednesday he had no power to cancel her DO status — which can mean indefinite incarceration.

Famous for writing love letters to Bernardo, she was convicted of making death threats against a family he had victimized.

Erstikaitis has a long history of dangerous and bizarre behaviour, including setting her apartment on fire and stabbing an ex-boyfriend.

In 2016, she attacked and slashed a security guard at the University Ave. courthouse.

She acted as her own lawyer — as she did in her most recent trial — arguing it was time to lift her 2011 DO status. Erstikaitis remains under supervision for three more years.

The judge explained he had no jurisdiction to reverse another judge’s order.

The Bernardo fangirl said she wants her own psychiatrist to testify on her behalf, perhaps someone who “works with celebrities.”

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“What we have here is a woman who says, ‘I want to be a success story,’ is beautiful, brilliant, could be in Hollywood doing whatever I like, could be married to the president of China,” she told the court, according to published reports.

“I could be doing whatever I want because of my intelligence and beauty, and there are no psychiatric issues other than I’m surrounded by jealous women, and have to call 911 and police every time I move.”

She is back in court July 13.

bhunter@postmedia.com

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