Anna Friel felt “threatened” and fearful throughout her three-year stalking ordeal.
Anna Friel’s stalking ordeal
The 49-year-old actress turned the main target of undesirable consideration from Phil Appleton, 71, who turned up at her house a number of occasions, mouthed ‘I really like you’ to her safety cameras and left items, together with a hoop.
In response to The Solar, she stated in a sufferer affect assertion at his court docket listening to: “As a girl within the appearing trade the place there have been a whole lot of circumstances of stalking, it nonetheless shocked me when it occurred to me.
“This case made me really feel very threatened and as if I’ve to look over my shoulder on a regular basis.”
Her ordeal started when the pair met whereas Friel was on a stroll together with her daughter and she or he presumed that they had labored collectively prior to now due to his acquainted method.
She gave him her electronic mail tackle and he started sending her common messages, together with ones the place he informed her he beloved her.
Friel “determined to not reply within the hope that he would cease”, however he continued and expressed his want to marry her.
His lawyer, James Bloomer KC, informed the court docket his consumer felt “unreserved apology and disgrace” about what he had achieved.
He added: “He needs nothing greater than to return to the law-abiding life he has lived all these years.”
Appleton was given a 15-year restraining order and a two-year group order.
He has been banned from approaching, following or contacting Friel or her daughter and it was dominated that he should additionally avoid the realm close to her house in Windsor.
