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A former BBC radio presenter found guilty of stalking four people including broadcaster Jeremy Vine has been jailed for five and a half years.

Alex Belfield, who now runs a YouTube channel, stalked his victims by harassing them online.

His trial heard he made YouTube videos about them, posted messages on social media, sent emails, and also encouraged his followers to target them.

The judge said one of his victims came close to killing himself.

Belfield had harassed this victim, BBC Radio Northampton presenter Bernard Spedding, for nine years and some of his followers had sent him death threats.

"He was seconds away from taking his own life as a result of your conduct," the judge, Mr Justice Saini, told Belfield.

"You made this highly successful and confident radio presenter lose all joy in life and turned him into a shell."

The judge said that while Belfield did not physically approach or watch his victims, the effects were just as damaging.

"The stalking you committed was not the conventional type which is popularised in the press," he said.

"Your methods were, however, just as effective as a way of intimidating your victims, and were in many ways much harder to deal with."

The judge said he agreed with some of the witnesses in the case, who said Belfield had "weaponised the internet".

Belfield, who is 42 and from Nottingham, was originally charged with stalking eight different people, who were mostly current or former BBC staff.

The full wording of the charges stated he "pursued a course of conduct that amounted to harassment" of the complainants, which "amounted to stalking" and caused them "serious alarm or distress".

He was found guilty of this offence in relation to two of the complainants - Mr Spedding, who is known as Bernie Keith, and videographer Ben Hewis.

For each of these charges he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, to run consecutively.

The judge said Belfield "bombarded" Mr Spedding - who had previously been friends with Belfield - with Facebook messages and emails, and made "highly abusive" YouTube videos containing false allegations.

"He had no escape from you," the judge told Belfield.

The judge said it was an aggravating factor that Belfield's harassment was public, as this caused his social media followers to also abuse Mr Spedding over a "lengthy period".

"In some cases this has extended to death threats," he said.

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I'm not joking here but I seriously believe Belfield is suffering from a mental illness.

It's good he's been jailed though. But I do think he needs treatment.
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Page 15 of todays Sunday Times
has an interview with Vine.


The Worse thing Belfield did
was put Vines's Home Address Online



He said he knew Belfield was a Coward,
but he used online followers
that Vine was concerned about.



Ref: Times Radio Live online free & DAB

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Vine has given an interview with
To BBCnewsnight
a clip was on BBCnewsHD.

What Vine does not understand
why Belfield is in Prison
but still has an active Twitter account.

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