{"id":560293,"date":"2025-11-09T23:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/560293\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:13:15","slug":"myleene-klass-speaks-out-on-birmingham-stalker-and-says-evidence-was-deemed-too-disturbing-for-her-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/560293\/","title":{"rendered":"Myleene Klass speaks out on Birmingham stalker and says &#8216;evidence was deemed too disturbing for her to see&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Windsor, from Stechford, was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court last month and will be sentenced later this month<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1_Peter-Windsor-court-case.jpg\" alt=\"Myleene Klass arriving at Birmingham Crown Court to give evidence in the trial of Peter Windsor\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Myleene Klass arriving at Birmingham Crown Court to give evidence in the trial of Peter Windsor(Image: PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Television and radio presenter Myleene Klass has opened up about her harrowing stalking ordeal by a <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Peter Windsor, 61, of Mary Road, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/yardley-and-stechford\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Stechford<\/a>, in Birmingham, was convicted last month of stalking both Myleene and her Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick over a four-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">He had denied two counts of stalking causing &#8220;serious alarm or distress&#8221; but was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court and is due to be sentenced at the same court later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">The trial heard he had sent Myleene numerous &#8220;unwanted&#8221; gifts, including an air pistol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read more <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/paedophile-birmingham-taxi-driver-raped-32837079 \" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Paedophile Birmingham taxi driver raped young girls after offering them gifts and pocket money<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Myleene has now claimed that some evidence presented in court was deemed too disturbing for her to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Speaking to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/celebrity\/article\/mylene-klass-i-asked-listeners-to-get-in-touch-i-was-sent-a-gun-7qtwd2k8m\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sunday Times Magazine<\/a>, she explained: &#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">&#8220;I couldn&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Myleene said she suspects she will never fully understand the scope of Windsor&#8217;s harassment campaign, after discovering that security personnel at the radio station had disposed of items sent to her without informing her.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1_petterJPG.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Peter Windsor(Image: WMP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">She added: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that my family or myself were in any danger. They asked me in court, &#8216;Has he come to your work?&#8217;. I&#8217;ll never know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">&#8220;I sign autographs. I take pictures with people. I was a sitting duck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">Speaking about facing Windsor in the trial, she said: &#8220;Court was the most sobering part. I underestimated it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">&#8220;My goodness, the way women who take the stand are made to feel they&#8217;ve done something wrong, to prove they didn&#8217;t want these items and this attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">While giving evidence last month, she spoke of being informed by police that an air gun had been intercepted by the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/royal-mail\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">She said she was told the air gun &#8216;could prove fatal&#8217; at close proximity and that it was &#8216;very clear what the intention was&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"birminghammail\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Windsor, from Stechford, was convicted at Birmingham Crown Court last month and will be sentenced later this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,30,393,4884,30493,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-560293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-myleene-klass","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115522280343966748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}