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Jeremy Vine’s stalker has agreed to pay “substantial” damages to the broadcaster after targeting him with a “hurtful and distressing” campaign of harassment, the High Court has been told. Alex Belfield, a former BBC local radio presenter, also wanted to “apologise unreservedly” for making “false allegations of dishonesty” after settling a civil claim brought by Mr Vine, a judge heard on Thursday.
This included the false claim that Mr Vine was “seriously and demonstrably dishonest” because he had “publicly and repeatedly lied” about his knowledge of the circumstances in which the BBC gave him £1,000 for a memorial event for radio executive John Myers. Mr Myers, who died in June 2019, was one of Mr Vine’s “closest friends”, the court was told.
“The defendant’s defamatory allegations struck at the heart of long-established reputation for integrity and probity in his work as a journalist,” Mr de Wilde said. was also made deeply upset and anxious by the defendant’s harassment of him, and he became concerned for the safety of his family.” The barrister added: “He also accepts that the publications for which he was responsible have been found to have amounted to unlawful harassment of .”
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