Alex Belfield: Last News

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.

A former BBC radio presenter has received a five-year jailed sentence after being found guilty for stalking four people, including a fellow broadcaster, and for what the judge described as “weaponising the internet.”

Rylan Clark has opened up about the physical and mental impact of his divorce, revealing his body ‘shut down’ during his break-up. The DJ met his ex-husband Dan Neal eight years ago and tied the knot in a small ceremony in 2015, surrounded by close friends and family. Last July, the It Takes Two presenter announced they had separated in a statement on Instagram, saying they were ‘prioritising our mental health.

Ex-BBC DJ Alex Belfield has been sentenced to over five years in prison after being found guilty of stalking broadcasters, including TV presenter Jeremy Vine, in a sickening hate campaign.

BBC radio host has been found guilty of stalking four people including radio and TV broadcaster Jeremy Vine.Ex-BBC Radio Leeds host Alex Belfield was found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court last week of four stalking charges [via BBC News].Vine, who presents a weekday lunchtime programme on BBC Radio 2 and a weekday morning current affairs show on Channel 5, called Belfield “the Jimmy Savile of trolling” while giving evidence against him.The broadcaster was referring to the disgraced, late BBC presenter who was found posthumously to have abused hundreds of victims of abuse over his career.Vine claimed that Belfield had waged a war of abuse against him via social media and via Belfield’s YouTube channel, ‘The Voice Of Reason’. Belfield has been suspended from the platform on more than one occasion.Vine added: “I have in the past had a physical stalker who followed me.