Restraining order for fan who sent One Show host vulgar tweets
A BESOTTED fan who sent BBC presenter Alex Jones vulgar tweets in a 17month-long harassment campaign was given a restraining order by a court.
As well as sending The One Show host messages on Twitter, Shane Goldsmith, 44, was accused of expressing his love to her while visiting a filming at BBC Broadcasting House.
Miss Jones, 38, was due to give evidence against her alleged stalker from behind a screen at Westminster magistrates’ court after being left “nervous, anxious and vulnerable” by his actions.
The CPS instead offered no evidence against him on the condition he accepted a restraining order. Miss Jones was said to be “happy” with that action.
Goldsmith, who resides at Cygnet Hospital Stevenage, a mental healthcare hospital in Hertfordshire, is not to contact Miss Jones, her husband or her parents.
He sent tweets to her account, saying she had “fantastic t--s” and inviting the “darling lovely lady” for a fry-up at the Bear and Staff pub, in Leicester Square, London.
The campaign of harassment against the Welsh presenter lasted from April 1 2014, to Sept 20 last year.
Goldsmith accepted that he sent a “number of public tweets over a number of months, and accepts with hindsight that this contact was unwanted”.
He also accepted he was outside BBC Broadcasting House “on a number of occasions” which caused Miss Jones “harassment, alarm and distress”.
The restraining order was imposed “to prevent further harassment”.
Senior District Judge Howard Riddle heard Goldsmith had 31 previous convictions for 62 offences.