Peter Windsor, from Stechford, was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court last month and will be sentenced later this month
Myleene Klass arriving at Birmingham Crown Court to give evidence in the trial of Peter Windsor(Image: PA)
Television and radio presenter Myleene Klass has opened up about her harrowing stalking ordeal by a Birmingham man.
Peter Windsor, 61, of Mary Road, Stechford, in Birmingham, was convicted last month of stalking both Myleene and her Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick over a four-year period.
He had denied two counts of stalking causing “serious alarm or distress” but was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court and is due to be sentenced at the same court later this month.
The trial heard he had sent Myleene numerous “unwanted” gifts, including an air pistol.
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Myleene has now claimed that some evidence presented in court was deemed too disturbing for her to see.
Speaking to The Sunday Times Magazine, she explained: “Everyone in court had a folder of evidence. But during the trial, the clerk would be ordered to remove certain pages from mine. I was censored from my own life.
“I couldn’t see what the others were seeing. So I was wondering what else was in there. If an image of a gun was considered OK, what was not OK? It was deeply worrying.”
Myleene said she suspects she will never fully understand the scope of Windsor’s harassment campaign, after discovering that security personnel at the radio station had disposed of items sent to her without informing her.
Peter Windsor(Image: WMP)
She added: “I didn’t know that my family or myself were in any danger. They asked me in court, ‘Has he come to your work?’. I’ll never know.
“I sign autographs. I take pictures with people. I was a sitting duck.”
Speaking about facing Windsor in the trial, she said: “Court was the most sobering part. I underestimated it.
“My goodness, the way women who take the stand are made to feel they’ve done something wrong, to prove they didn’t want these items and this attention.”
While giving evidence last month, she spoke of being informed by police that an air gun had been intercepted by the Royal Mail.
She said she was told the air gun ‘could prove fatal’ at close proximity and that it was ‘very clear what the intention was’.
Windsor, who has schizophrenia, claimed a defence of insanity. He also refuted his conduct amounted to stalking and that the complainants were caused genuine distress.