Jeremy Vine’s super-stalker Alex Belfield posts YouTube video vowing ‘We’ll be again’ after being jailed for 5 years for his nine-year hate marketing campaign as social media big refuses to take it down
- Alex Belfield, 42, was sentenced to 5 and a half years in jail final week
- The previous BBC presenter waged a marketing campaign of abuse towards his victims
- One sufferer was broadcaster Jeremy Vine, who referred to as him ‘a fountain of hate’
The stalker referred to as ‘the Jimmy Savile of trolling’ by sufferer Jeremy Vine has posted a YouTube video vowing ‘we’ll be again’ after being jailed.
Alex Belfield, 42, was sentenced to 5 and a half years in jail final week for stalking 4 victims within the broadcasting world by waging a relentless marketing campaign of harassment towards them on-line.
Belfield posted YouTube movies attacking his victims to his 350,000 subscribers and aggressively posted about them on social media, encouraging his followers to do the identical.
The choose in his trial at Nottingham Crown Court docket mentioned certainly one of his victims got here near killing himself.
BBC presenter Jeremy Vine was topic to a years-long stream of abuse and harassment, and has mentioned he feared somebody would have died if the courts had not intervened.
Belfield posted the movies on his YouTube channel with over 350,000 subscribers
Belfield additionally harassed theatre blogger Philip Dehany and BBC Radio Northampton presenter Bernard Spedding for years, along with his followers sending Mr Spedding demise threats.
Jeremy Vine blasted social media firms YouTube and Twitter for not taking down abusive and defamatory movies made by Belfield, and permitting him to maintain his account even after being imprisoned.
The day he was sentenced, Belfield uploaded a compilation of his dwelling movies and clips from his reside present on his ‘Voice of Cause’ channel entitled ‘Again Quickly’.
The outline added: ‘We’ll be again.’
Talking to BBC Newsnight, Mr Vine mentioned he was ‘disgusted by the dearth of values of the social media firms’ in not performing to cease ‘fountain of hate’ Belfield.
Mr Vine added the abuse was so critical he feared ‘somebody taking a knife and even acid to my dwelling’.
He mentioned: ‘I am amazed how arduous it’s to get them to grasp. We went to Youtube and mentioned “Come on, what was occurring with this man, you’ll be able to’t simply enable him to defame.”
‘Then we are saying “okay, there is a libel motion now primarily based on that video, that video”, they nonetheless will not take them down.
Talking to BBC Newsnight, Jeremy Vine referred to as stalker Alex Belfield a ‘fountain of hate’ and mentioned social media firms ought to have taken down his abusive and defamatory content material
The stalker posted the ominous message within the description of a video posted on the day he was sentenced to 5 and a half years in jail
‘Finally I needed to undergo a lawyer, they take down particular person movies after which when he is convicted they demonetise him.
‘However half the movies about me are nonetheless on the market. His approach was to say copy and share.
‘So you will have somebody who takes his video in Moscow and hosts it and it will at all times be on the market. I’ve acquired to reside with that.
‘However the truth that Youtube hosts these things, they haven’t any duty. They do not care, they do not give a toss.
‘I’m disgusted by their lack of values, and Twitter as properly.
‘The man is in jail and he is nonetheless acquired a Twitter account. What the hell is that about? I do not perceive it.
‘Belfield has already put out a video from jail saying he will be proper again up and operating.
‘He is acquired restraining orders on eight folks now however he’ll begin on different folks.
‘The one factor you are able to do is deprive folks of their platform.’
Belfield was convicted of 4 fees of ‘easy’ stalking between 2012 and 2021.
Sentencing final week, Mr Justice Saini advised him: ‘Your offences are so critical solely a custodial sentence might be justified.’
The choose mentioned Belfield directed his assaults by way of social media ‘in extremely unfavourable and sometimes abusive phrases.’
Mr Justice Saini additionally issued indefinite restraining orders banning him from contacting his victims.
YouTube and Twitter have been contacted for remark.