The presenter dubbed Alex Belfield as the 'Harold Shipmen of online stalking'
One of Alex Belfield's victims says the stalker's case is a "watershed" moment and that we may now have reached the "peak" of online harassment. BBC Radio 2 and Channel 5 presenter Jeremy Vine dubbed Belfield the Harold Shipman of online stalking.
Belfield, 42, of Mapperley, was once a presenter on BBC Radio Leeds but after leaving because of what he described as a dispute over pay, he spent around a decade pursuing various other avenues in the media industry. One of these was his YouTube channel, "The Voice of Reason", which he eventually earned money from.
Speaking about the experience of seeing Alex Belfield for the first time during the Nottingham Crown Court trial, Mr Vine said: "I wasn't at BBC Leeds, I'd never come across the guy. I think I was apparently part of some training session he was in once, but I don't even remember him. At one point during the trial, Jeremy Vine said that Belfield was the "Jimmy Saville of trolling." Expanding on this comment, Mr Vine said: "His offending is above and beyond anyone else's in his category, like Saville's was in a different category, like Shipman in a different category. When you're looking at web-based harassment and stalking, you won't find any other offender as prolific and as vicious as Belfield.
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