An obsessed stalker who focused Laura Woods for over two years and threatened to kill her canine has now been jailed.
TNT Sports and ITV Sport presenter Woods, 36, was reportedly left in “real fear” due to the actions of Liverpool fan Harneet Kaur, 25, who was given a 14-month sentence final Friday (February 16). Kaur started her obsessive marketing campaign in June 2021 and it lasted till September of final yr.
During that point she despatched a bible, sexual well being checks and meals orders to Woods’ London dwelling, and in addition directed derogatory messages in the direction of her on social media underneath the alias ‘Krazy Harns’.
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That’s based on the Daily Mail, who report how Kaur first ordered a field of Krispy Kreme doughnuts by way of Just Eat for Woods, who posted an image on Twitter, now X, to thank the thriller purchaser for “making her evening”.
She quickly realised there was one thing extra sinister occurring when a Starbucks order and a lollipop with the message “from your secret admirer and I’m not crazy” arrived. Data from Kaur’s iPad confirmed she visited the highway the place Woods lives the next month.
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It was round that point that the web hate started, together with calling Woods a “vile, stuck-up person” and a “former prostitute who slept herself into a job”, in addition to threatening to kidnap and kill her canine. She was arrested in April 2022 and once more in August of that yr, with police seizing her gadgets on each events.
But the abuse continued, with Kaur posting insulting feedback on Woods’ Wikipedia web page and saying she wasn’t welcome at Anfield forward of a televised Liverpool match. She posted “wtf is that coke head doing at Anfield” and an image of Woods’ face on the physique of an chubby man.
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Prosecutors mentioned Kaur had left Woods, who suffers with nervousness and has upped safety at each her dwelling and when at work, with a “real fear” she would get near her. They sought a banning order from each soccer stadium within the nation, in addition to giant a part of London and the whole lot of Newcastle the place Woods’ accomplice Adam Collard lives.
Her sufferer impression assertion additionally mentioned Kaur had an “enormous and devastating” impact on her life. The defence, in the meantime, tried to elucidate that Kaur’s autism led to the “obsession and compulsion”.
Judge Talog Davies refused to simply accept the argument that she did not know the impression of what she was doing, however mentioned the prosecution’s requests have been too draconian. As nicely because the 14-month sentence, he imposed a restraining order which bans Kaur from contacting Woods and 15 different individuals, and from going inside 500m of her dwelling.