LAURA Woods was reportedly left in “actual concern” after an obsessed stalker despatched her vile messages and threatened to kidnap her canine.
The presenter, 36, endured two years of torment as Harneet Kaur, 25, focused her on-line and despatched undesirable packages to her home.
Female Liverpool FC fan Kaur grew to become infatuated with Laura again in 2021 and started visiting the road she lived on, a court docket heard.
The sick marketing campaign concerned terrifying threats to kill Laura’s canine and vile messages the place she referred to the pundit as a prostitute.
Bibles, sexual well being exams and meals orders had been additionally organized to be delivered to Laura’s London pad.
Kaur had Krispy Kreme doughnuts delivered to the deal with earlier than sending a Starbucks order and chocolate lollipop with the message: “From your secret admirer and I’m not loopy”.
Antonie Muller, prosecuting, instructed Wolverhampton Crown Court “Woods didn’t realise this was to be the start of a campaign in opposition to her”.
The contact then began turning “darker” when Woods, who presents for TNT Sport, was bombarded with messages.
One mentioned she was a “former prostitute who slept herself right into a job”.
Kaur was arrested in April 2022 and re-arrested in August later the identical yr.
Her telephone and iPad had been seized each instances, however that “did not cease her”.
In October, she posted an image of Woods commentating at Anfield with the caption: “Wtf is that coke head doing at Anfield.”
Kaur, who has autism, was beforehand banned from Liverpool’s floor for ticket touting.
While Kaur’s barrister claimed her offending was right down to autistic traits of “obsession and compulsion”, decide Talog Davies rubbished the arguments.
Sentencing her to 14 months in prison, he mentioned Kaur would have identified the impression she was having on Woods.
Prosecutors fought to have Kaur banned from each soccer stadium within the nation, stories the MailOnline.
But the decide mentioned it was too harsh a punishment and as a substitute handed her a jail sentence and a restraining order.
Kaur has been banned from contacting Woods and 14 different individuals, and can’t go inside 500m of her home.
Balbir Singh, mitigating, mentioned: “This defendant has by no means met Laura Woods, she has by no means spoken to her, she has by no means approached her – for this reason this case could be very completely different to many others that come earlier than the courts.”
Kaur, from Walsall, West Mids, pleaded responsible to stalking.
