Myleene Klass has revealed that some evidence in her stalker trial was deemed ‘too traumatic’ to show her as she reflected on the ‘horrific and sobering’ ordeal in a new interview on Sunday.
Last month the presenter, 47, expressed her relief that ‘my family and I finally have peace’ after a schizophrenic man was convicted of stalking her.
Peter Windsor was found guilty of stalking Myleene after sending her an air pistol and calling her a ‘naughty vixen’ to her Classic FM offices during a nine-month campaign of harassment.
He also asked her in sick correspondence to ‘correct him’ with a whip and cane, as well as sending her letters and gifts including fancy dress costumes and jewellery. Many items were intercepted by office security before she saw them.
The 61-year-old, from Stetchford, Birmingham, tried to argue some of his gifts were a ‘joke’, but was found guilty of stalking Myleene between November 2023 and August 2024, following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court in October.
And now speaking to The Times she has revealed that the court considered many of the items she was sent to be too distressing for her to see or be reported on.
Myleene Klass has revealed that some evidence in her stalker trial was deemed ‘too traumatic’ to show her as she reflected on the ‘horrific and sobering’ ordeal in a new interview on Sunday
Peter Windsor was found guilty of stalking Myleene after sending her an air pistol and calling her a ‘naughty vixen’ to her Classic FM offices during a nine-month campaign of harassment
She said: ‘Everyone in court had a folder of evidence. But during the trial the clerk would be ordered to remove certain pages from mine. I was censored from my own life.
‘I couldn’t see what the others were seeing. So I was wondering what else was in there. If an image of a gun was considered OK, what was not OK? It was deeply worrying.’
Myleene added that at the time it didn’t occur to her to insist to see the censored items but upon reflection she now says she would have preferred to know.
She also explained in the interview how she will never know the full extent of his harassment as ‘for years’ letters and packages were intercepted by security at Classic FM’s offices who threw them away in order to not worry her.
She was finally made aware of the unwanted mail issue last August but says she is haunted by what could have happened to her or her family in that time that she didn’t know what was going on.
Myleene said: ‘I didn’t know that my family or myself were in any danger. They asked me in court, ‘Has he come to your work?’ I’ll never know. I sign autographs. I take pictures with people. I was a sitting duck.’
Peter was also found guilty of stalking Myleene’s Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick, 54, after sending her a pair of binoculars, running shoes with spikes, a bottle of champagne and a stamp collection for her son.
Last month the presenter, 47, expressed her relief that ‘my family and I finally have peace’ after a schizophrenic man was convicted of stalking her
Now, speaking to The Times she has revealed that the court considered too many of the items she was sent to be too distressing for her to see or be reported on
He sent her between 80 and 100 items over a period spanning March 2020 to December 2023.
In a statement following the verdicts, which she posted on Instagram, Myleene said: ‘After a horrific year, my family and I finally have peace.
‘Thank you for your love and support, especially to Birmingham Police, in particular PC Marius Dinescu, Judge Tom Rochford, State Prosecutor Timothy Sapwell, Members of the Jury and Birmingham crown court, Katie Breathwick, Classic FM, Global radio, Severine Berman and Simon jones.’
The trial also heard Windsor sent a letter signed in blood to former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in which he ‘pledged his soul to satan’.
The items and correspondence addressed to the two Classic FM presenters were intercepted at Global radio’s London office where the pair worked.
The air pistol was stopped by police before it reached Myleene the court heard.
Jurors reached their unanimous guilty verdict on Peter Windsor after deliberating for four hours and eight minutes over two days.
Judge Tom Rochford told Windsor, who has been on remand throughout his trial, that the options for his sentencing included prison or two types of hospital order.
Sobbing in court as she gave evidence, Myleene described her ‘sheer terror’ at finding out she had been sent a cache of ‘overtly sexual’ letters and presents over four years including a set of handcuffs with a note saying ‘whip me, beat me priestess Myleene’.
The 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, which was an air pistol.
‘He said that whilst 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.’
Myleene said she had been forced to enhance security at home after being targeted by Windsor.
Letters and parcels sent to Myleene and Mrs Breathwick were also shown to the jury.
One of the notes tells how he managed ‘5,000 pull ups in 19 hours’ while another talks about the women’s’ ‘alien’ eyes and how he would like to paddle in a lake outside Buckingham Palace with them.
He also sent the two women a bottle of Champagne each. Wilson sent Mrs Breathwick perfume and a stamp collection for her son. In some he referred to himself as ‘Sir Peter Windsor’.
The court heard Windsor was arrested in September last year at his home in Birmingham 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 had been told Windsor has a ‘history of mental illness and a longstanding diagnosis of schizophrenia’.
Opening the case against him, the prosecutor, said Windsor had ‘became obsessed’ with the two presenters.
He said that they were used to getting fan mail and the occasional gift but this was ‘very different’ and involved a large number of letters and parcels many of which were ‘bizarre’ and ‘demonstrated his obsessive interest’.
Mr Sapwell said there was also a ‘sexual overtone too’ – highlighting Catwoman and police officer outfits sent to Ms Klass.
He said Windsor initially answered no comment then he decided to answer some of the questions that were put to him.
Myleene is pictured at Birmingham Crown Court during the trial
He said he sent the items to Ms Klass as a ‘joke’ after seeing her in ‘provocative underwear’ in a newspaper. He said the gun was a joke too.
Addressing the jury, Mr Sapwell said the normal verdict would be guilty but there was ‘another layer’ to this case.
He said Windsor has a ‘history of mental illness and a longstanding diagnosis of schizophrenia’ which when medicated ‘largely coped with but when it’s not he doesn’t’.
Windsor argued his conduct did not amount to stalking and that the two women were not caused alarm or distress and never asked him to stop.
