Laura Woods sent dark messages from stalker including threats to kill her dog

19 February 2024 , 18:10

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Laura Woods' stalker has been jailed

Sports presenter Laura Woods was sent dark messages from her stalker as well as packages delivered to her home.

Harneet Kaur, 25, has been jailed and banned from contacting the TNT Sport star and 14 other people again after appearing in court. Laura endured two years of torment from Kaur, who targeted the presenter on social media. Sexual health tests and bibles were also sent to Laura's address.

The harassments from Kaur started when the Liverpool FC fan was infatuated with Laura. She visited the street Laura lived on and sent messages online, a court heard. Messages posted by Kaur branded Laura a "vile, stuck-up person", a "Tory" and a "former prostitute who slept herself into a job".

Laura Woods was left with 'real fear' following the two-year ordeal (Getty Images)

Kaur, who is banned from her team Liverpool's stadium for ticket touting, also posted a message reading "wtf is that coke head doing at Anfield" as well as a photo of Laura on the body of an "overweight man". The harassment ran from June 2021 and September 2023, having an "enormous and devastating" effect on the broadcaster. Kaur was arrested in April 2022.

She was later re-arrested in August of the same year. In July 2022, Kaur's iPad showed she had visited the road where her victim lived. Judge Talog Davies told the court how an order of Krispy Kreme donuts were sent to Laura's house, which she was "pleasantly surprised and thought it was a mistake or somebody being nice".

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The TV star posted a picture on her Twitter account saying they had "made her evening". Antonie Muller, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Crown Court Laura "did not realise this was to be the start of a campaign against her" as, within a few days, a Starbucks order with a message "From your secret admirer and I'm not crazy" arrived on her doorstep.

She sent vile messages to the former Sky Sports presenter, including how she would kill her dog. Laura, who suffers from anxiety, was left with a "real fear" that the defendant would get close to her while she was working. She has been forced to increase security both at home and while she is working.

Balbir Singh, mitigating, said: "This defendant has never met Laura Woods, she has never spoken to her, she has never approached her – this is why this case is very different to many others that come before the courts." Kaur, who lives with her accountant parents in Walsall, west Midlands, pleaded guilty to stalking.

Judge Davies jailed her for 14 months, handing her a restraining order with a demand not go within 500m of her London home. Prosecutors wanted Kaur to be banned from every football ground in the country, but according to reports the judge considered this too harsh.

Mia O'Hare