Myleene Klass tells court of her terror over alleged stalker

Myleene Klass has told of her ‘sheer terror’ at finding out she had been sent a cache of ‘overtly sexual’ letters and presents over four years including a set off handcuffs with a note saying ‘whip me’.

The Classic FM radio presenter, 47, sobbed in court as she recalled how she was also sent an air pistol by schizophrenic Peter Windsor, 61, which was intercepted by the UK Royal Mail.

Ms Klass, a mother-of-three, had to pause several times in the witness box to compose herself as she recounted how a police officer called her while on the school run to tell her about the weapon.

‘He said that while this gun wasn’t necessary for a licence, at close proximity, right up to six feet it could prove fatal,’ she told jurors. ‘I think anyone receiving a gun would be terrified.

‘I was extremely shocked because suddenly it felt extremely real. I think we spend so much time as women trying to justify why we feel the way we do – have we misinterpreted it? There was no grey area here. There was a gun in a box with my name on it.’

Windsor is also accused of sending her second-hand shoes, jewellery, and a Catwoman and police officer fancy dress costumes, as well as an imitation firearm which turned out to be an air pistol, to Global radio’s London studios.

He has denied stalking Ms Klass for nine months between November 2023 and August 2024 and her Classic FM colleague, Katie Breathwick, 53, who was sent between 80 and 100 items including champagne and running spikes between March 2020 and December 2023. Letters and parcels sent to Ms Klass and Ms Breathwick were shown to the jury.

One of the notes tells how he managed ‘5,000 pull-ups in 19 hours’ another talks about the women’s ‘alien’ eyes and how he would like to paddle in a lake outside Buckingham Palace with them.

Giving evidence at Birmingham Crown Court on Wednesday, Ms Klass said she had been forced to enhance security at home after being targeted by Windsor, of Birmingham.

Ms Klass, who has worked at Classic FM for almost 20 years, told how she only discovered in August last year that she had been targeted by Windsor when she received an email ‘out of the blue’ from managing director David Rose saying that there had been some ‘concerning items that had been received’.

Up until that point, her mail was being screened and ‘vetoed’ for her.

Ms Klass said her personal manager Severine Berman said ‘this does not feel right at all’ and it was reported to police. Ms Klass said it was only later that she discovered ‘a larger body of items’ over four years had been sent but had been thrown away by security at Global.

In March last year, she was sent a silver ring with a note describing her as a ‘worthy high priestess’, jurors were told. The note was written in red and black ink in capital letters on a page torn from a spiral-bound notebook.

Another parcel included a letter from the Coventry Building Society to Windsor about withdrawals totalling £1,250 from his bank account along with a note which called her a ‘naughty vixen’ and asked her to ‘correct him’ with a ‘whip and cane’.

Ms Klass was also sent a pendant in a box, as well as handcuffs with a note which read: ‘ps enclose correction handcuffs whip me beat me priestess Myleene’.

She told how she received a call from police in September last year to say that Royal Mail had intercepted a gun several months earlier that was intended for her.

She told how the discovery had left her terrified. She said she had to contact her daughters’ school and had totally changed the way she travelled and lived. She told jurors: ‘I’m always second guessing myself. It’s like playing a game of chess with yourself. As a woman you have an unspoken understanding… it’s a constant survey, a constant risk assessment for women.’

The court heard that Windsor was arrested in September last year at his home when police found a ‘number of items’ including maps of London showing where the women worked, as well as a black leather glove, women’s stockings and a pair of binoculars. Jurors were told that he has a ‘history of mental illness and a long-standing diagnosis of schizophrenia’.

Ms Klass is in a long-term relationship with PR executive Simon Motson. The trial continues.