Emily Maitlis reveals her 25 year stalking hell: 'I am worried for my children's safety'
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Emily Maitlis reveals her 25 year stalking hell: "I am worried for my children"s safety"
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BBC presenter Emily Maitlis has revealed her 25 year stalking nightmare which left her fearing for her children’s safety.
Newsnight presenter Emily met her stalker Edward Vines as undergraduates at Queen’s College, Cambridge University, and they were nothing more than acquantances.
But Vine, who has been convicted of harassing the journalist, began following her and bombarding her with messages.
The presenter told the Times: “I wasn’t a celeb, I was just a student who knew him a bit. But it soon became very intense and he turned up everywhere. My whole family was trying to protect me.”
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Despite taking him to court more than ten years ago where she was forced to give evidence to Vine, who represented himself after firing his lawyer, before it was cut short after 45 minutes because of her distress, he still harasses her.
She said: “I had a police presence outside my house two months ago. There is an injunction and, when he breaches it, it starts again.
“There is a weariness to it. It feels neverending. His life is ruined; I try to blank it. For the first 15 years I thought if I did this or that, it would help. I now realise it’s not about me.
“But it is when you need an escort to go to Sainsbury’s and my kids have to have a security guy to go to the school bus. He can start threatening. I am butch enough to run fast, but it’s my kids I mind about.”
Vines was convicted of stalking her in 2002 and sentenced to four months in prison following the trial at West London magistrates court.
And Emily – who has two sons with husband Mark Gwynne – admitted she doesn’t see an end to the ordeal, despite Mr Vine, who suffers from schizophrenia, being sentenced to four months in jail in 2002.
Source: Celebmirror
Emily Maitlis reveals her 25 year stalking hell: "I am worried for my children"s safety"
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