Laura Woods warned ‘tonight’s the night time you die’ as chilling risk despatched to TV presenter

Laura Woods has opened up about the chilling threats she received from her stalker. Last year, Harneet Kaur received a 14-month prison sentence and was handed a restraining order, prohibiting her from coming within 500 metres of Woods’ home.

Kaur had established multiple online accounts to target Woods and posted testing kits for sexually transmitted diseases to her address. Woods also received death threats and funeral letters amid a campaign that lasted two years.

Discussing the experience publicly for the first time, the TNT Sports host told the Telegraph: “For three years, she would go to extreme lengths to make my life very uncomfortable. There were birthday cards that would say, ‘Today’s the day you were born and tonight’s the night you’re going to die.’

“I would receive monthly funeral letters, because she had signed me up to these things. She sent the animal welfare team around about my dog.”

Kaur even placed bogus calls to the police claiming Woods had been attacked. Woods continued: “She called the police and said she had seen me being dragged into my house by a man with a knife.

“In 2023, I was in Poland, covering Oleksandr Usyk’s fight with Daniel Dubois, and she emailed me while I was on air. It was a video of my front door and a message, saying, ‘I know you’ve got three cameras in your house.’

“I started going through all the video footage to see if anyone was in there. It was terrifying. It was every possible way you could conceive that she would try to get to me. Dating websites, spam websites, it was relentless. I couldn’t understand how one person could do it all.

“There was a video she posted with a gun in America at a shooting range, and it was directed at me. It was just too much, and it changed the way I felt about London.

“I lived on my own with my dog, and I felt very exposed. I didn’t want to be there any longer. It spun me into quite a bad place. Suddenly I was extremely anxious and low.”

Woods, who shares a 10-month-old son with her fiancé Adam Collard, gave the interview before she collapsed on live TV while presenting coverage of an England women’s match earlier this month.

ITV abruptly went to a commercial break and when coverage resumed, her place had been filled by her colleague Katie Shanahan, who informed viewers that Woods had been “taken ill”.

Later, Woods reassured her followers via her Instagram story: “Gosh that was a bit weird. Sorry to worry everyone, I’m OK, the wonderful paramedics at Saints have said it’s probably a virus, just need a bit of rest and hydration.”

She expressed her embarrassment over the incident but thanked her ITV colleagues for their support: “I’m really embarrassed that happened on tv, but a big thank you to my colleagues at ITV who have really looked after me tonight. And to Wrighty and Neets for catching me and sorry again.”

Since then, Woods has resumed her presenting duties, leading the coverage of Manchester City’s Champions League match against Real Madrid this week.

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