Cheryl Tweedy's stalker who ‘terrified’ star by turning up to her home jailed

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A convicted killer who “terrified” Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy by repeatedly turning up to her home has been jailed. Daniel Bannister, 50, admitted turning up at the 41-year-old’s Buckinghamshire home and ringing the bell at the gate on December 10 last year, while banned from doing so by a restraining order.

Bannister had twice turned up at her home last year before being slapped with an order, the court heard. Having turned up at the property and used the intercom in January 2024, he claimed he had “come to get Cheryl”, the court was told.

In July of the same year he again called at the house and said “I’m really thirsty, I just want a glass of wine please”. Jailing him for 16 weeks at Wycombe Magistrates’ Court on Friday, District Judge Arvind Sharma said Bannister knew the singer was “very distressed and upset” by what he was doing.Tweedy told police she “immediately panicked” when she spotted Bannister outside her home again last year. “I knew this was Daniel because I have had previous incidents where Daniel has come to my property,” she told police at the time. “I was concerned he was looking for a way into the property.” The singer told officers her son was due back from the cinema, and did not want him to see the stalker, the court heard. “I want to protect my child from any harm.” Bannister killed 48-year-old Rajendra Patel in an attack at a south London YMCA shelter in 2012 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter, the Sun reported.

On Monday, he was sentenced for two counts of harassment relating to the breach of a restraining order, and one count of attempting to breach a restraining order.The singer’s former partner Liam Payne died last year in Buenos Aires, Argentina after falling from his third-floor hotel.