y the time Belfield began tormenting Dehany in 2020 he had become a successful YouTuber who could have been earning up to 528,000 a year, according to Social Blade, a website that monitors social media channels. Belfield started wearing Trump polo shirts and began campaigning against small boat crossings in the Channel, using a dinghy as a prop for his live shows. He has been contacted 5 times to remove his outrageous claims. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Ex-BBC presenter Alex Belfield's "campaign of harassment" had left Northampton's Bernie Keith "just seconds away" from suicide. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk. 6 months later Ben Hewis REFUSES to release the email. Breen and Green both think the BBC failed all four women who gave evidence against Belfield. You have got these proclamations of hate coming out and that it will never end.'. I am caught in a constant cycle of exhaustion and fatigue. "From his very first email and in the majority of communications thereafter, he used my wife and children as his main weapon to terrify, intimidate and blackmail me," he wrote. He is being sued for libel by Vine, as well as by the Nottinghamshire police detective in charge of the case against him, and when ordered to pay Vines initial costs of 26,000 after failing to file a defence on time, paid up, in October 2021, within a few days. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. Saying he was proud of how he had managed to keep his troubles from his audience, the radio presenter continued: 'It's come at a huge personal toll. 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BBC Radio Leeds presenter Liz Green, who was harassed for 10 years by Belfield. Bernard Spedding - guilty (majority verdict), Philip Dehany - not guilty to the charge on the indictment but guilty of the alternative charge of "simple" stalking (majority verdict), Jeremy Vine - not guilty to the charge on the indictment but guilty of the alternative charge of "simple" stalking (unanimous verdict). I had gone to the police to make it stop and it was just getting worse. By the time Belfield began tormenting Dehany in 2020 he had become a successful YouTuber who could have been earning up to 528,000 a year, according to Social Blade, a website that monitors social media channels. His last company, Champagne Sippers, incorporated in December 2020, has never filed company accounts. Official YouTube stats show that www . 'In April last year I collapsed at my home and had to be taken to hospital. 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'On Saturday nights I wasn't allowed to be in the (BBC Radio Northampton) building on my own. 2023 BBC. Giving evidence in court, Vine said: I have in the past had a physical stalker who followed me. They were exonerated. In October 2020, Belfield spread a false rumour that he was having an affair with a fellow BBC radio presenter, using it as part of his ongoing campaign against the national broadcaster. endstream endobj 563 0 obj <>/Metadata 36 0 R/Pages 560 0 R/StructTreeRoot 43 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences 579 0 R>> endobj 564 0 obj <>/MediaBox[0 0 595.32 841.92]/Parent 560 0 R/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI]>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> endobj 565 0 obj <>stream The application is being followed-up in its original format, including victims from his trial, and with two more people added - who were not involved in his trial. hb```6Ad`0p Former BBC radio personality Alex Belfield, 42, is also a vlogger from Nottinghamshire. Aaron Sidwell was smart enough to retract his comments immediately: Phillip Dehany refuses to delete his post/vlog repeating the lies and endorsing Hewis. . 27 febrero, 2023 . Green blames the BBC for the not-guilty verdicts: The reason I believe the court didnt find him guilty on our charges though we will never know what the jury was thinking was because the BBC allowed it to go on for so long. Instantly disprovable lies published by Ben Hewis. . Instead, he made YouTube videos about them, posted messages on social media, and sent emails either to them or about them. Even after YouTube stopped him making money from his channel, Belfield was still reasonably flush. endstream endobj startxref BBC Radio Northampton DJ Bernie Keith told the court he was left feeling suicidal by a tsunami of hate. She was looking for a new presenter to liven up the mid-morning show and thought Belfield, who was working for BBC Hereford and Worcester, was the man for the job. The civil application, which pre-dates the criminal case, is for a Stalking Protection Order on the basis he has carried out acts associated with stalking. Online stalkers like you have the ability to recruit an army of followers whose conduct massively expands the effect of your stalking. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Alex Belfield has been jailed for five and a half years. Jeremy Vine arriving at Nottingham Crown Court in July. Apparently jealous that Keith's BBC career carried on while his own was . In August Belfield, of Mapperley, was convicted of stalking to cause alarm and distress to BBC Radio Northampton's Bernie Keith, and guilty of the same charge concerning videographer Ben Hewis. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Steven J Miller, another YouTuber, explained Belfields initial appeal in his own video, recorded after Belfield was jailed: Alex Belfield was responsible for putting smiles on thousands and thousands of peoples faces and he did that not by slagging people off but by him being him. People loved Belfields innuendos, said Miller, giving an example of when Belfield filmed himself on a train platform as a train whizzed by and exclaimed: Oh, I nearly got sucked off!. Fans, largely older women, were often in the public gallery to show support. BBC & RPC lawyers refuse to deny BBC DJ Bernard Spedding / Bernie Keith wrote email. Mr Justice Saini said Belfield's campaign of harassment had left Mr Keith just seconds away from dying by suicide. One of the alleged victims - TV and radio presenter Jeremy Vine - told the trial last week that 42-year-old Belfield is 'the Jimmy Savile of trolling'. More videos coming soon.. Your email address will not be published. Mr Justice Saini said Belfield developed a fixation in pursuing Mr Vine with a campaign of abuse, with the broadcaster having to warn his wife and children to watch out for the defendant, especially after his home address was published by his followers. Unprovoked, anonymous, malicious email published by Ben Hewis Oct 1 2019. On Count 5, It is a powerful weapon for fighting political or commercial enemies . Member of the public 'donates' hand grenade to D-Day museum Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. A former BBC radio presenter has been found guilty of stalking four people including broadcaster Jeremy Vine. The judge described Mr Dehanys mother as robust for the way she dealt calmly with Belfield, telling her: Everybody needs a mother like you. Mr Justice Saini said: It was an outrageous and cruel act to call her and make a recording, which Belfield later used as content on his channel. Alex Belfield was convicted of four charges following a trial at Nottingham Crown Court, Belfield was found guilty of "simple" stalking in relation to BBC presenter Jeremy Vine, Belfield was previously a presenter at BBC Radio Leeds, Belfield made videos throughout his trial and posted them on YouTube. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. In his closing speech to jurors at Nottingham Crown Court, Belfield said he had a right to freedom of speech, and some of the communications were in his role as a journalist, holding the BBC to account. He will be even more unbearable, she said in an Instagram video, with a twinkle in her eye that suggested she can hardly wait. I live in fear and I have done for a long time, she says. Some feel he was given too much power in his own trial. First Belfield bawled out the stations beloved gardening correspondent for a perceived act of insubordination, prompting a surge of listener complaints. Belfield had denied stalking the 57-year-old, and seven other alleged victims, claiming he was the subject of a witch hunt. Play it now! The 42-year-old, from Nottingham, is due to be sentenced on 16 September and has been warned he could be jailed. Read about our approach to external linking. "He now has developed the insight that he didn't have before," Mr Aubrey said. 'My initial reaction (to the alleged stalking) was ''He's gone mad'',' Mr Keith said. Alex Belfield, 42, who "weaponised the internet", was last month found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court of waging a relentless campaign, with TV's Mr Vine subjected to an "avalanche of hatred". It was hard to take any satisfaction from the jailing of this despicable man when he will not serve a single day in jail for what he did to the four Leeds women, he said. Police inquiry opened Feb 2020 Nottinghamshire Police. Neither had ever met him. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. With an international audience via YouTube - Celebrity Radio continues to grow. Follow us on Facebook here and Twitter here. Sprechrollen (Serien) Basil Langton (als Frsorger) in Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager (1995-2001) in 2 Episoden ; Stephen Elliott (als Richter Harold Aldrich) in Chicago Hope - En Belfield, who has 361,000 followers on his YouTube channel, The Voice Of Reason, and 43,000 on Twitter, directed his attacks via social media in highly negative and often abusive terms, the judge said. "Stalking is a crime. He soon made enemies in the theatre world, says a director who started monitoring his online activities a few years ago (and who wishes to remain anonymous). 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When Alex Belfield was sent to prison for five and a half years last month for online stalking, his accusers cried with relief. Ben Hewis refuses to engage with the police and hand over the email. Between 2004 and 2010, he appeared on radio stations, including Mercia FM, Touch FM, BBC Bristol, BBC Radio Shropshire and BBC Hereford and Worcester. Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims. His anti-BBC stance soon attracted prominent support: Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen appeared on his shows and last year wrote to Priti Patel, then home secretary, to complain about what he called a BBC witch-hunt against Belfield, after one of his arrests. That he was allowed to play court reporter upset many complainants, particularly as Belfield decided not to give evidence under oath. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. We have begged the BBC to resolve this quietly and privately. 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The royal we was a frequent Belfield affectation, designed to give the impression that he sat at the top of an anti-woke multimedia empire in the Alex Jones/Infowars mould. Its like an avalanche of hatred that you get hit by., Vine didnt think he had ever even met Belfield, but another former BBC radio presenter, James Hazell, remembers Vine delivering a masterclass to local BBC presenters in 2010. The final two victims who went to court and testified against Belfield were both from the theatre world. Former BBC DJ Belfield was jailed in September after he was found guilty of waging a relentless stalking campaign against BBC Radio Northampton's Bernie Keith, and subjecting TV presenter Jeremy . The author identified himself in the screen-grab published by Hewis. Broadcaster Alex Belfield arrested FIVE times and strip-searched in 'BBC witch-hunt' The Home Secretary has been asked to intervene in an alleged "witch hunt" of a former BBC DJ who has been . Find Alex Belfield of CelebrityRadio.biz's articles, email address, contact information, Twitter and more. The judge told Belfield that while not traditional stalking, his methods were just as effective a way of intimidating victims and in many ways much harder to deal with. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. is an English professional association football club based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.The club was formed in the late 1870s and in 1884 they took the name Burslem Port Vale, dropping the 'Burslem' prefix in 1907. (The person to be protected does not have to have been the victim of the acts mentioned above. Alex Belfield arriving at Nottingham Crown Court on the day of his sentencing. The Guardian asked Bridgen if he regretted supporting Belfield and did not receive a response. Keith tried in vain to get YouTube to remove all of the libellous videos, even turning up at the social networks HQ to beg it in person. UPDATE. For the best part of 10 years they had been complaining about Belfields vendetta, in which he sent hundreds, if not thousands, of emails to them and their superiors. Alex Belfield has been jailed on four stalking charges (Picture: SWNS / PA) . A "cruel" former BBC local radio presenter has been jailed for five years and 26 weeks for stalking broadcasters including Jeremy Vine. 1. Weve presented the BBC and RPCs Nicola Cain (now left the case as Bernies lawyer) with indisputable evidence that we believe BBC Northamptons Bernie Keith wrote this unprovoked attack. No more waking up in the middle of the night filled with dread about what he might have said about them to his then 373,000 YouTube subscribers or in bitter emails to their bosses or clients. "There's a good chance of a custodial sentence," he added. Alex Belfield is a 42-year-old former BBC radio star and vlogger who hails from Nottinghamshire. Finally, respite from what for some had been a decade of near-constant abuse. Online stalkers like you have an ability to recruit an army of followers whose conduct massively expands the effect of your stalking, he said. READ MORE: The cinemas in Northamptonshire showing the Queen's funeral on Monday for free, Jurors accepted Belfield caused serious alarm or distress to two victims and found him guilty of simple stalking in relation to Channel 5 and BBC Radio 2 presenter Mr Vine and theatre blogger Philip Dehany. The verdicts in relation to each complainant, in the order they appeared on the indictment, were: In mitigation, barrister David Aubrey KC said Belfield had not intended to cause his victims distress, but could now see that he had. Within days, 15,000 people had signed a Free Alex Belfield petition and Hopkins was on Instagram mocking Belfields targets for whining about simple hurty words. You are entitled to hold and express views but you are not entitled to destroy the personal lives of your victims through online harassment.. Asked why it had not banned Belfield from its platform following his conviction, YouTube did not respond. At conservative gathering, Trump is still the favourite. Giving evidence to Nottingham Crown Court under his full name of Bernie Keith Spedding, he said his reputation is 'now in shreds' after 'proclamations of hate' and death threats, which have affected his health.
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