Alex Belfield: Stalker ex-BBC DJ agrees to pay damages to Jeremy Vine
Alex Belfield: Stalker ex-BBC DJ agrees to pay damages to Jeremy Vine
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A former BBC radio presenter convicted of harassing Jeremy Vine has agreed to pay the broadcaster damages.
Alex Belfield was jailed in September for five and a half years for harassing four people online.
This included the BBC Radio 2 presenter, who launched a separate civil action over Belfield's 'harassment campaign', the High Court has heard.
Vine's lawyer said Belfield made false allegations in nine YouTube videos and eight tweets, posted in 2020.
'Deeply upset and anxious'
Gervase de Wilde told Ms. Judge Steyn that Belfield - a former BBC Radio Leeds presenter - published "entirely false" allegations between May and August this year.
This included the false claim that Vine was "grossly and manifestly dishonest", because he had "publicly and repeatedly lied" about his knowledge of the circumstances in which the BBC donated £1,000 to a memorial fund for radio executive John Myers.
Mr. Myers, who died in June 2019, was one of Vine's "closest friends", the court heard.
Mr. de Wilde said Belfield was also seeking "private information about [Vine]," including phone numbers of family and friends, "for the purpose of publishing and disclosing that information online."
A former BBC radio presenter convicted of harassing Jeremy Vine has agreed to pay the broadcaster damages.
Alex Belfield was jailed in September for five and a half years for harassing four people online.
This included the BBC Radio 2 presenter, who launched a separate civil action over Belfield's 'harassment campaign', the High Court has heard.
Vine's lawyer said Belfield made false allegations in nine YouTube videos and eight tweets, posted in 2020.
'Deeply upset and anxious'
Gervase de Wilde told Ms. Judge Steyn that Belfield - a former BBC Radio Leeds presenter - published "entirely false" allegations between May and August this year.
This included the false claim that Vine was "grossly and manifestly dishonest", because he had "publicly and repeatedly lied" about his knowledge of the circumstances in which the BBC donated £1,000 to a memorial fund for radio executive John Myers.
Mr. Myers, who died in June 2019, was one of Vine's "closest friends", the court heard.
Mr. de Wilde said Belfield was also seeking "private information about [Vine]," including phone numbers of family and friends, "for the purpose of publishing and disclosing that information online."
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