Jeremy Vine 'disgusted' by social media firms failure to shut down stalker's account

express.co.uk:

BBC local radio presenter Alex Belfield, 42, was jailed for five years and 26 weeks last Friday after being found guilty of waging a campaign against a number of figures from the broadcasting world.

Jurors accepted he caused serious alarm or distress to two victims and found him guilty of "simple" stalking in relation to Channel 5 and BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine and theatre blogger Philip Dehany.Addressing social media companies' response, Mr Vine told BBC Two's Newsnight: “I am amazed at how hard it is to get them to realise.So we went to YouTube and said: ‘Come on, what is going on with his guy?

You can’t allow him to just defame’.“And then we said: ‘OK, there is a libel action now based on that video, that video, that video’ – they still won’t take them down.“Eventually I have to go through a lawyer, they take down individual videos, and then when he is convicted they demonetise him.

But half the videos about me are still up there.“His technique was to say ‘copy and share’ so you will have someone who takes his video in Moscow and hosts it.