Image source, PA Media Image caption, BBC speaker Jeremy Vine is amongst 8 declared stalking victims Broadcaster Jeremy Vine endedupbeing noticeably upset as he explained the impacts of presumably being stalked by a previous BBC radio speaker. Mr Vine stated Alex Belfield endedupbeing “fixated”, consistently implicating him of taking £1,000 of BBC cash. He stated “the saddest thing” was when one of Mr Belfield’s fans called him a “thieving toe-rag” under a Facebook homage to his late daddy. Mr Belfield, from Nottingham, rejects 8 counts of stalking. At Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, Mr Vine’s voice broke as he remembered the Facebook message about his late dad. “The saddest thing that tookplace throughout all of this was when I published a homage to my dad [who died with Parkinson’s in 2018] on Facebook, and the veryfirst message I got was ‘What would your daddy have stated if he had recognized his kid was a thieving toe-rag?'” Mr Vine stated. “I couldn’t manage it. I couldn’t manage it.” Mr Belfield, who was formerly a speaker at BBC Radio Leeds however now runs a YouTube channel, is implicated of stalking and bothering 8 individuals consistingof Mr Vine. He is not implicated of physically stalking them, however the prosecution state he bugged them by consistently sendingout e-mails, publishing on social media and making YouTube videos, and that this amounted to stalking. ‘Not a routine giant’ Giving proof, Mr Vine explained it as “like an avalanche of hatred you get strike by”, and “absolutely Olympic-level stalking, even for transmitting”. Describing his response to an e-mail that Mr Belfield sentout to him and his Radio 2 program group, he stated: “I idea this person is unsafe. I have in the past had a physical stalker who followed me. That’s a picnic compared to this person.” At one point, Mr Vine stated he read a blogsite post that hadactually been composed by another of the declared victims, theatre critic Philip Dehany. “What I appreciated about him is rather of running away, Dehany logged whatever, and he put it in a blogsite,” Mr Vine stated. “And as I read this blogsite I understood for the veryfirst time we are dealing with major criminality. This is not a routine giant here, this is the Jimmy Savile of trolling.” Image source, PA Media Image caption, Alex Belfield is representing himself throughout his trial at Nottingham Crown Court The charges dealtwith by Mr Belfield, who is representing himself, cover a time duration of more than 8 years, and are as follows: Stalking Rozina Breen inbetween 25 November 2012 and 31 March 2021Stalking Liz Green inbetween 25 November 2012 and 31 March 2021Stalking Helen Thom
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