An alleged stalker despatched Myleene Klass a Catwoman and police officer fancy-dress outfits and tried to put up her an air pistol throughout a nine-month marketing campaign of harassment, a court docket heard.
Peter Windsor, 60, additionally despatched the previous pop star a number of letters and ‘undesirable items together with footwear and jewelry’, prosecutors mentioned.
His alleged stalking had a ‘substantial antagonistic impact on Ms Klass’s common day-to-day actions’, and which he knew or should have recognized would trigger her ‘critical alarm or misery’, in keeping with authorized paperwork.
Windsor can also be accused of stalking Ms Klass’s colleague, Katie Breathwick, 53, a late-night presenter on Traditional FM.
Prosecutors mentioned that between 2020 and 2023 he despatched Ms Breathwick some binoculars, a pair of trainers, a bottle of champagne and a stamp assortment.
Each Ms Breathwick and Ms Klass, 46, acquired a sequence of undesirable ‘incoherent’ letters that had Windsor’s tackle on and gave the impression to be in his handwriting, Birmingham Crown Court docket heard.Â
After focusing on Ms Breathwick for nearly three years, Windsor diverted his consideration to her Traditional FM colleague, Ms Klass, prosecutors mentioned.
The objects had been allegedly despatched to the radio station’s London workplace, although the air pistol was intercepted earlier than it reached the mother-of-three, the court docket heard.
An alleged stalker despatched Myleene Klass a Catwoman and police officer fancy-dress outfits and tried to put up her an air pistol throughout a nine-month marketing campaign of harassment
Windsor can also be accused of stalking Ms Klass’s colleague, Katie Breathwick, 53
Neither Ms Breathwick or Ms Klass – who discovered fame within the pop group Hear’Say, created by means of actuality sequence Popstars in 2001 – attended the temporary listening to final month.
Windsor, of Stechford, Birmingham, appeared on a videolink from jail, the place he’s being held on remand.
Defence barrister Phil Brunt efficiently utilized for an adjournment. He’s but to enter a plea to 2 counts of inflicting critical alarm by stalking however a trial has been scheduled for March.
Hear’Say had one of many biggest-selling debut singles of all time with their 2001 hit Pure & Easy, which shifted 550,000 copies within the first week of launch, turning into the primary of two UK No 1s for the group.
However their success was short-lived and the group disbanded after 18 months.
Classically skilled musician Ms Klass was runner-up on I’m a Superstar 4 years later, with scenes of the star showering in a white bikini turning into an everlasting picture for the sequence.
The bikini was later offered at a charity public sale, elevating £7,500.
Final 12 months, Ms Klass received an ‘all stars’ model of the present set in South Africa and have become the primary ‘I’m a Superstar Legend’. Moreover her work at Traditional FM she is a panellist on ITV’s Free Girls.
Ms Klass is in a long-term relationship with Simon Motson with whom she has a son, who was born in 2019. Ms Breathwick, who’s married to the creator of the
BBC sequence Demise In Paradise, Robert Thorogood, has labored at Traditional FM since 2008.
