Sex beast sent disturbing letters written in felt-tip to DJ
A STALKER sent disturbing letters to Radio 2 DJ Sara Cox after buying her address details online.
Police discovered a fake BBC pass and a Google map print-out of Ms Cox’s sister’s work address at the home of convicted paedophile Anthony Collins, a court heard.
Collins, 50, pleaded guilty to harassment relating to disturbing notes posted to the 42-year-old Bolton-born host of BBC Two’s The Great Pottery Throw Down.
He also admitted two counts of possessing indecent images and two counts of making indecent images of children and was sentenced by a judge to 16 months in jail.
Maidstone Crown Court heard Collins, bought fromSara Cox’s Chatham addressin Kent, details online for £17 and sent her letters handwritten in felt-tip pen along with a printed photo of her, in which he used her married name Cyzer.
Prosecutor Mary Jacobson said Ms Cox received an envelope on January 24 containing two letters in which Collins wrote that he was lonely, psychologically disturbed and had a long criminal history.
He added that he was poor, living unhappily in a bedsit and he asked Cox to invite him to BBC Radio 2’s studios, saying she was ‘lovely, warm, kind and sexy’.
The court was told Collins had a criminal history that included an 18-month jail term for poisoning a 13-year-old girl he had befriended in a bid to sedate her and have sex with her. Collins also broke a restraining order by speaking to two girls, aged six and seven, and asking them whether they knew what sex was and making other lewd comments. The court heard he was also convicted after he followed a girl home from primary school, and handdelivered a £10 note with a letter addressed to ‘the young blonde girl’ in which he asked her to text him.