Laura Woods seen for the first time in two years of stalking hell revealed
LAURA Woods makes her first appearance since her two-year stalking hell was revealed.
The presenter, 36, was reportedly left in “real fear” after an obsessed stalker sent her vile messages and threatened to kidnap her dog.
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Laura was spotted on set this evening ahead of TNT Sports' coverage of FC Porto versus Arsenal in the Champions League.
She was tormented for two years when Harneet Kaur, 25, attacked her online and sent unwanted parcels to her home.
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 used Just Eat to arrange for Krispy Kreme donuts to be delivered to the address.
Judge Talog Davies said Ms Woods was initially “pleasantly surprised and thought it was a mistake or someone was being nice”, so she posted a photo on her Twitter account saying they had “made her evening”.
But Antonie Muller, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Crown Court: “Woods did not realize this would be the start of a campaign against her.”
Kaur sent a Starbucks order and chocolate lollipop with the message: “From your secret admirer and I'm not crazy.”
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 commentating at Anfield with the caption: “Wtf is that coke head doing at Anfield.”
Kaur also sent messages saying Ms Woods was a 'Tory' and was not welcome in Liverpool ahead of a match she was due to attend.
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.
Woods suffers from anxiety and has been forced to increase security at home and at work.
Prosecutors said Kaur's actions had left Ms Woods with a “real fear” that the defendant would get close to her while she was at work.
They fought to have Kaur banned from every football stadium in the country, reports say 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.