Television and radio presenter Myleene Klass has bravely spoken about her traumatic experience with a persistent stalker from Birmingham. Peter Windsor, 61, of Mary Road, Stechford, was convicted last month at Birmingham Crown Court for stalking both Myleene and her Classic FM colleague, Katie Breathwick, over a period of four years.
Despite denying two counts of stalking causing “serious alarm or distress,” Windsor was found guilty and is slated to be sentenced later this month. During the trial, it emerged that Windsor had sent Myleene numerous unwanted gifts, including an air pistol—a detail that highlights the severity of his harassment.
Myleene has revealed that some of the evidence presented in court was deemed too disturbing for her to view. She told The Sunday Times Magazine, “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.”
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She also expressed concerns that she may never fully grasp the extent of Windsor’s obsession, noting that security staff at the radio station had disposed of several items sent to her without her knowledge. Myleene admitted, “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.”
Reflecting on giving evidence, she described the experience as sobering and highlighted the emotional toll on women in court, saying, “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.”
During her testimony, Myleene recounted that police had intercepted an air pistol sent by Windsor via Royal Mail. She was warned that the weapon “could prove fatal” at close range and that it was “very clear what the intention was.”
Windsor, diagnosed with schizophrenia, attempted to claim a defence of insanity, denying that his actions amounted to stalking or caused genuine distress to the victims.