Alex Belfield

Jeremy Vine has opened up on his stalking ordeal after Alex Belfield was sentenced to time in prison for terrorising the broadcaster.

"Or the other thing is he gets one of his victims to take their own life. He was found guilty by a jury of "simple" stalking in relation to [Channel 5](/latest/channel-5) presenter [ Jeremy Vine](/latest/jeremy-vine) and blogger Philip Dehany. [BBC ](/latest/bbc)DJ Alex Belfield was sentenced to five and a half years in prison after being found guilty of stalking broadcasters. I felt broken over it. I can see this Youtube channel is an absolute fountain of hate. "He wants that hatred to be so great someone pays me a visit and I know he wanted that because he put my home address up, so I had to take it seriously.

The Radio 2 presenter says he is "disgusted" at social media giants after experience left him "broken".

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Journalist and presenter Jeremy Vine says his stalker Alex Belfield put him in a "really unhealthy place" after he became "afraid of what he could do to my ...

[Jeremy Vine](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/jeremy-vine) says his [stalker Alex Belfield](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-former-bbc-dj-alex-27657189) has already put out a video saying he'll be back. [The 42-year-old](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-former-bbc-dj-alex-27657189) targeted [Jeremy](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/jeremy-vine) and despite being behind bars, Vine claims he still has access to social media and claims he'll be 'back soon'. "And, you know, we've seen knife attacks on MPs, MPs being killed, people who are prominent being attacked. [Belfield's](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-former-bbc-dj-alex-27657189) barrage of hate, he shared [Jeremy’s](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/jeremy-vine) address online and urged his online followers to turn up at the star’s home. He said he feared that at some point one of the 400,000 people watching Belfield's videos "going to take a knife or acid to my home". [Belfield,](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-former-bbc-dj-alex-27657189) a former local [BBC](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/bbc) radio presenter, was last week sentenced to five years in jail for masterminding an 11-month campaign of online harassment against [Jeremy](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/jeremy-vine) and other victims.

Former BBC local radio presenter Alex Belfield, 42, was jailed for five years and 26 weeks last Friday after being found guilty of waging a campaign against a ...

He is in prison and he has still got a Twitter account. “And Twitter as well. Asked about the response of the social media companies, Mr Vine told BBC Two’s Newsnight: “I am amazed at how hard it is to get them to realise.

Former BBC local radio presenter Alex Belfield, 42, was jailed for five years and 26 weeks last Friday after being found guilty of waging a campaign against ...

He is in prison and he has still got a Twitter account. "And Twitter as well. It will always be out there, I have got to live with that.

As Alex Belfield is sentenced to more than five years in prison, a broadcaster criticizes social media companies for the content they host.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). [Saini](/topic/saini), the sentencing judge, informed Belfield that one of his victims was "seconds short of ending his own life as a consequence of your actions." But fifty percent of the videos concerning me are still online, "he claimed. [Belfield](/topic/belfield)instructed his viewers to duplicate and distribute them, Vine said, adding, "I've got to live with it." The videos will "forever be out there" because Vine reported that Belfield had released a video announcing his intention to resume operations.