Laura Woods left in fear after stalker 'sent mean messages and deliveries'
LAURA Woods was reportedly left in 'real fear' after an obsessed stalker sent her vile messages and threatened to kidnap her dog.
The presenter, 36, endured two years of torment when Harneet Kaur, 25, attacked her online and sent unwanted parcels to her home.
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Female Liverpool FC fan Kaur fell in love with Laura in 2021 and started visiting the street where she lived, the court heard.
The sick campaign included terrifying threats to kill Laura's dog and vile messages calling the expert a prostitute.
Bibles, sexual health tests and food orders were also arranged to be delivered to Laura's London pad.
Kaur had Krispy Kreme donuts delivered to the address before sending a Starbucks order and chocolate lollipop with the message: “From your secret admirer and I'm not crazy.”
Antonie Muller, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Crown Court: “Woods did not realize this would be the start of a campaign against her.”
The contact then started to get “darker” when Woods, who presents for TNT Sport, was bombarded with messages.
One said she was a “former prostitute who talked herself into a job.”
Kaur was arrested in April 2022 and arrested again later that year in August.
Her phone and iPad were confiscated both times, but that “didn't stop her”.
In October, she posted a photo of Woods commenting on Anfield with the caption: “Wtf is that coke head doing at Anfield.”
Kaur, who has autism, was previously banned from Liverpool grounds for selling tickets.
While Kaur's lawyer argued her offending was due to autistic traits of “obsession and compulsion”, Judge Talog Davies dismissed the arguments.
He sentenced her to 14 months in prison, saying Kaur would have known the impact she had on Woods.
Prosecutors have been fighting to have Kaur banned from every football stadium in the country, the newspaper reports MailOnline.
But the judge thought it was too harsh a punishment and instead imposed a prison sentence and a restraining order on her.
Kaur is not allowed to contact Woods and fourteen other people and is not allowed to come within 500 meters of her home.
Balbir Singh, mitigating, said: “This defendant never met Laura Woods, she never spoke to her, she never approached her – therefore this case is very different from many others that come before the court.”
Kaur, from Walsall, West Mids, pleaded guilty to stalking.