Angry stalker has made me feel unsafe in my own home, Keira Knightley tells court

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY has said she feels unsafe in her own home after a stalker sent her a “paedophilic” picture and miaowed through her letterbox.

The actress said she had become “extremely concerned” by the behaviour of Mark Revill, 50, who had repeatedly gone to her home, waited outside and used chalk to draw an arrow pointing to her door.

Revill was yesterday sectioned under the Mental Health Act indefinitely, having been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

He had already been handed an eight-week suspended sentence and given an indefinite restraining order last autumn after stalking the 32-yearold mother-of-one.

He had repeatedly visited the actress’s home. He also put a USB stick with cat-themed music through the letterbox. Despite the restraining order, he continued stalking the actress who is married to James Righton, the former Klaxons singer, with a series of tweets, just weeks after he served his sentence.

In one tweet, under the name Mark Catipuss, he wrote “my campaign of disobedience continues” in north London “tonight” and then added: “James Righton and Keira Knightley will not get much help from the police.” The tweets included an indecent image of a child which caused Ms Knightley “particular anxiety bearing in mind they have a young child”.

In a victim impact statement read out to Blackfriars Crown Court referring to Twitter posts, Mr Righton said: “I scrolled until I got to a photograph of a young girl, not more than 10 years old, definitely under age, she was completely topless standing and posing. This alarmed me as it was paedophilic. It caused me to become extremely concerned about Mark Revill.”

Ms Knightley said in a statement: “I was concerned because his postings had escalated in anger and were involving my family. I was worried because he had become more angry and obsessive.

“It seemed like he was aggrieved that we had gone to the police last year. Now we feel unsafe in our own home.”