It is hoped that the health street will also support new initiatives, such as Integrated Care Systems and social prescribing, which in some cases tells people to attend groups and activities, rather than prescribing medicine. Video, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. Read about our approach to external linking. Related posts: Bernie Clifton Vegas Interview 2018 Keith Elliot Greenberg Interview - The Day John Lennon Died Keith Chegwin Exclusive 2015 Interview Celebrity Big Brother. His trial heard he made YouTube videos about them, posted messages on social media, sent emails, and also encouraged those that follow him to target them. Belfield clearly resented being there, recalls Hazell He was sulking and had a face like thunder. Helen Thomas not guilty Something went wrong, please try again later. It was on that channel that he first broadcast highly partisan court reports from his own trial, later posted to YouTube and still available to view, after persuading the judge that he was a journalist and should be given the same rights as the Nottingham Post. We will not hide the truth! #ShareOnlinePlease #PayPalAlex Belfield prison sentence for online stalking. 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He also launched a website back in 2012 and he has been producing content for it. We were the learning curve for Belfield. He hated being told how to improve by Jeremy, and thats where I think it all started.. According to GoFundMe, which hosted the appeals, he raised a total of 29,446. He posted videos and messages online about his victims and encouraged his. Female BBC employees who were harassed online by former radio presenter Alex Belfield have accused the corporation of failing to help them. However, this has prompted Waxman to call for a reform in the law to give victims more time to appeal under the ULS, The Guardian reported. I accept the evidence that Mr Belfield effectively followed these women by online harassment throughout their careers, said the judge. In addition, the judge made restraining orders for life for all eight victims. The term again is two-and-half years; Count 7: Philip Dehany, not guilty to stalking to cause alarm and distress but guilty to simple stalking - Belfield received a consecutive sentence of 13 weeks. "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. Belfield was found not guilty of stalking Rozina Breen, Liz Green, Helen Thomas and Stephanie Hirst. When not filming himself he would address his camera operator as Tarquin. We also want to learn from this to ensure we offer the best possible support to all colleagues, who may sadly experience the threat and risks of online stalking in the future., Last Friday, the four BBC women received an email saying the BBC had commissioned an internal review to establish what lessons can be learned from the recent criminal case. "But the fact that YouTube hosts this stuff, they have no responsibility. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Alex Belfield had no qualms about the abuse he handed out, in many cases publicly. Today Alex Belfield has been sentenced to 5 years 26 weeks in prison for his stalking myself and 7 others. I am not imposing sentences on you because you made comments about the BBC or about matters of public interest. But, according to The Guardian, under the current law, anyone can appeal to the attorney general, the governments main legal adviser, if they think someone has received too low a sentence. The judge told Belfield he will serve up to half of his sentence in prison and the remainder on licence. typically hell do half that term on licence.This SPO is being brought against belfield by 10 people. The BBC Radio 2 presenter, 57, said Belfield - a 42-year-old former BBC local radio presenter - had taken him to a "really unhealthy place" and described his YouTube channel as a "fountain of hate". The Guardian asked Bridgen if he regretted supporting Belfield and did not receive a response. Both had come to the defence of others under attack by Belfield. A former local BBC radio host has been found guilty of stalking four people including television and radio broadcaster . He posted videos and messages online about his victims and encouraged his followers to target them. He started his own online show, Celebrity Radio, bagging interviews with famous people in return for advertising plugs, and tried to sell himself as a theatre and restaurant reviewer. This petition starter stood up and took action. A YouTube spokesperson said: "Monetisation on the Voice of Reason channel remains suspended for violating our creator responsibility policy. 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. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. "I've got two teenage daughters, you know, I can't be casual about it. Each of them suffered a campaign of harassment by email and social media communications. Barring a successful appeal, Belfield will serve at least the next two years and 39 weeks in jail, before being released on licence to serve the second half of his sentence. Each of them suffered serious mental health problems arising from Mr Belfield's conduct.". Sentencing Belfield at. Each of them suffered serious mental health problems arising from Mr Belfields conduct, he said, imposing indefinite restraining orders preventing Belfield from contacting the women. Belfield had harassed this victim, BBC Radio Northampton presenter Bernard Spedding, for nine years and some of his followers had sent him death threats. Thats a word I have never heard We four were left to suffer and are suffering still, she says. Replied But on August 5, 2022 he was found guilty of "simple stalking" regarding Vine and blogger Philip Dehany. "The Jimmy Savile of trolling" Alex Belfield, a former BBC radio presenter and vlogger, has had his bid for leave to appeal refused by a single judge. Presenter Iain Lee has since come out to say Belfield targeted him for many years, but that he was too frightened to go to court to give evidence. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. For the TV presenter Jeremy Vine, the most high-profile target of arguably Britains most prolific troll, it would be the first time in several years that he could host a live phone-in without worrying that one of Belfields acolytes would hijack the programme to confront him with Belfields lies. Horrific, vicious, cowardly.". 2023 BBC. Alex Belfield is a British YouTuber and former BBC radio broadcaster. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Launching it on 1 March this year, Belfield said he wanted to broadcast away from the toxic spectrumed trolls, lefties, fart heads & Mogadon moronic medicated mentalists & journalists. He will be sentenced on the 16th of September. When blocked on Twitter he used other accounts to see what I was tweeting and routinely publicly mocked me to his social media followers, posting screengrabs he could only have obtained by using an account that I hadn't blocked.". Ben Hewis is a videographer who works in the theatre and wedding industries and Philip Dehany was a rival theatre blogger. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. His last company, Champagne Sippers, incorporated in December 2020, has never filed company accounts. The fact we were asked to ignore potentially criminal evidence is an issue. Alex Belfield was sentenced to five and a half years last week, after being found guilty of stalking four people. 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Alex Belfield arrives at Nottingham crown court in July for the trial in which he was accused of stalking. He took photos of Hewiss wife and young child from social media and included them in his videos, even using a picture of a foetal scan showing Hewiss unborn baby as part of his relentless email campaign of harassment. The sentencing judge, Mr Justice Saini, told Belfield one of his victims had been "seconds away from taking his own life as a result of your conduct". Every time you open your phone he's there," he said. "And, you know, we've seen knife attacks on MPs, MPs being killed, people who are prominent being attacked. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. You can try refreshing the page, and if you're still having problems, just try again later. He said: "I was afraid of what he could do to my family. Nobody from the corporation has apologised for what I and the others faced for more than a decade.. It could be interpreted as a reluctance to expose systemic failings and a complete failure in duty of care. Perhaps that independent review would expose those at the very top (men) who left us exposed. If you are watching this, I have been sent to jail, intoned Belfield in his Steve Wright meets Alan Partridge boom, standing in front of a skewwhiff union jack in the living room of his Nottingham home, wearing one of his trademark jazzy shirts. 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Inside Ed Sheeran's secret struggle to make new album with pregnant wife's health shock and death of best friend, Kerry Katona reveals shock change of career as she bags random new job at BBC, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). It's Vaudeville - Random Events? For just over three minutes, the 42-year-old delivered a monologue in which he said he was in prison for simply defending himself. Belfield was given a total of five years and 26 weeks in prison, of which he will serve half, on all four charges he was convicted of. That the sentences were consecutive and not concurrent also surprised Chiffers. I live in fear and I have done for a long time, she says. The Pancake Day Clowns Of The Week - David Icke, The World That Was - Ickonic's Weekly Rewind. Sentencing Belfield, the judge said he had made this highly successful and confident radio presenter lose all joy in life and turned him into a shell He was terrified of you. So scared was Keith that he gave neighbours a copy of Belfields photograph, in case he decided to take his campaign of harassment offline. Not Replied He was accused of eight counts of stalking but he wasn't found guilty in half of it. "He said he could see their distress in court and feels deeply sorry for what he did.". BBC Radio Leeds presenter Liz Green, who was harassed for 10 years by Belfield. Londons commissioner for victims, Claire Waxman, asked for Belfields case to be reviewed under the unduly lenient scheme (ULS) requesting that Belfields sentence be increased. He was at the top of his game as a BBC radio star but the former BBC radio presenter could go to jail after being found guilty of stalking four broadcasters that includes Jeremy Vine.Could this be a grudge of some sort? I'm thrilled justice has been served & excited to move on with the rest of my life. Today, he has more than three hundred and sixty thousand subscribers and he has more than six thousand three hundred videos on his YouTube channel. Fortunately, it was too late to make a ULS referral because the statutory time limit for referral to the court of appeal had passed. The extent of his abusive behavior provided clear evidence that this conduct was stalking.This was such a bad case of stalking that Jimmy Vine, the presenter of BBC Radio 2 and Channel 5 wept in court.He went on to say that Alex trolled over the death of his father and Alex's stalking made him lose sleep and he was scared that Alex might do something to his family.If I see his channel description, there it says it is a channel that offers daily news and topical content and also he adds \"no hate\" to it with Frank's mass debate and words like real and honest.I don't think honest people stalk other people. This is what Sheryl Monk, a district crown prosecutor has to say \"Stalking is a very serious crime that has a severe impact on its victims. Let's talk about it.Hi guys, welcome to my channel. Start fundraising now. Alex Belfield: Sentencing Remarks and Judgment. My initial reaction without knowing the full facts of the case, but knowing that it concerned internet-based harassment, was one of shock, at the length of the sentence, wrote barrister Joseph Chiffers. 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. Some believe he relied on others as media monitors and had sources within the BBC itself: he seemed to know everything discussed on each of their radio shows every day, along with a number of internal matters. I think it's a hate crime. The fact we were left unsupported from the acts of someone regarded as a prolific, now convicted, stalker is problematic. By Josh Payne. But half the videos about me are still out there," he said. 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. 5. However, you may visit "Cookie Settings" to provide a controlled consent. So I'm not trying to give myself undue status here, but I had to think this through.". ! The Court in this case accepted Mr Belfield to be a journalist which should allow him greater freedom as recognised Internationally. How many people signed up for 1 a week is unclear, though some live streams attracted barely 300 viewers. This 1 bedroom 1 bathroom Apartment is for sale on realtor.com by Mint Property Agents - Belfield. Alex Belfield (born 1979 or 1980) [1] is an English former radio presenter for BBC Radio Leeds who was dismissed for misconduct. 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