You being a citizen of this country has no bearing on the jury who concluded that what he sent were threats. You not considering something to be a threat when the law determines that it was makes your opinion irrelevant. If you want to change the decision then perhaps train as a lawyer and convince Belfield to utilise your skills instead of defending himself again if he appeals the decision.
The "they're taking away our freedom of speech!" brigade always seem to have trouble understanding what free speech actually means. It's odd... you'd think if you were desperate to keep something you'd actually know what that thing is.
He's gay. It was never a secret, he just didn't mention it on his videos and often made homophobic comments about gay celebrities in order to please his audience, who he quite rightly assumed to be thick and ignorant. He lived with his ex-boyfriend for a few years and was dating a different man back when he worked for the BBC. It seems that in the trial he claimed he couldn't have been harassing one of his victims based on his sexuality because he shares the same sexuality, which the judge quite rightly determined to be nonsense because that's exactly what he'd done.
This is one of the best things I’ve ever read
The tweets are still there if you want to look them up, all the videos of him reading transcripts of the emails he sent and phone calls he made to his victims are there on his own channel. What is all this if not contacting people? Are you feeling okay?
While the sentence may have been harsh if it had been "just slagging people off online", there was actually far more to it than that which is why the sentence was what it is.
Well yes, I agree she needs time in prison. Not sure why that would then change your view on another convicted criminal’s sentence when they are totally unrelated. Let’s reduce other people’s sentences because it’s not fair on them when Katie Price isn’t locked up yet? Ridiculous argument.
Hello Alex
Have they let on the internet for a few hours?
What's shocking is he chose to represent himself despite being given over £300k in donations to "sue the BBC". He might have been able to shave a couple of months off if a good lawyer dwelled on his self-hating homosexuality and mental health issues.
Since you ask yes. She's a fucking psycho of the highest order and needs locking up for the safety of all of us..
The judge wanted to make an example of him upsetting all those media luvvies. All he was was a keyboard warrior! He was never going to do anything. Was anyone assaulted or robbed? Did he groom any children? The answer is NO but people who do get probation in the courts every day. Look at Katie Price flips a car while disqualified, drunk and high, what does she get? Community service. I'm no fan of Alex Belfield but I do not think he was treated fairly.
He works in the theatre and I believe from some digging I did last night, that he once told people on Twitter not to follow Alex and have nothing to do with him because he’s been harassing some of his colleagues. Alex then waged a hate campaign against him. As he did with anyone who he perceived to have wronged him. Total sociopath.
He didn't stand up for anything. He's in court for stalking people and also certainly going to be found guilty of it.
If you’ve seen the audience at any of his shows you’ll see he certainly appeals to a certain ‘demographic’. Mostly late middle aged, bald, overweight white men. The kind of people you’d see at a Roy Chubby Brown or Jim Davidson gig.