A 61-year-old man posted an air pistol, handcuffs, a police uniform and “disturbing” unwanted letters to TV and radio star Myleene Klass .
A jury today found Peter Windsor guilty of stalking the former Hear’Say singer and Klass’s Classic FM colleague Katie Breathwick.
He had sent Ms Breathwick details of a DIY will-writing kit and other “raving” and “unhinged” mail.
Klass, who lives in the Ham & High circulation area, told Birmingham Crown Court last week how she felt “sheer terror” after being sent items by Windsor, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and claimed to be not guilty by reason of insanity.
Windsor, of Mary Road, Stechford, Birmingham, had denied stalking both Klass and Breathwick by sending items to Classic FM’s central London studios between March 2020 and August 2024.
Jurors reached unanimous guilty verdicts on Tuesday after deliberating for a little over four hours over two days.
Windsor, wearing a grey sweatshirt, sighed and pursed his lips in the dock as the verdicts were announced.
Judge Tom Rochford told Windsor, who has been on remand throughout his trial, that the options for his sentencing next month include prison or two types of hospital order.
In her evidence, Breathwick told jurors she was left terrified by Windsor, who also sent her numerous hand-written notes, binoculars, perfume and running shoes.
She told the trial that she informed Klass of around 100 notes and gifts because she felt her colleague needed to be aware of a situation that might put her at risk.
Windsor sent a note calling Klass a “naughty vixen”, and mailed Breathwick a letter saying he wanted to go paddling in a lake with both women while drinking champagne, the court heard.
It emerged during the trial that Windsor was arrested but not prosecuted after sending a letter in October 2020 to then-Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon which he said had been “signed in blood” and which “pledged his soul to Satan”.
He told jurors the letter was “just a joke” and that he had sent parcels and letter to the radio presenters as a “pretend weird” acting performance.
Both complainants became upset during the evidence, with Klass telling the court how Royal Mail had found an air pistol addressed to her.
The 47-year-old said “it just felt extreme on every front” after she was informed in August last year by her employer’s security staff about packages sent by Windsor.
She was informed by a police constable in September last year that an air gun had been intercepted.
Ms Klass told the court: “I was extremely shocked because suddenly it felt extremely real. It’s a gun in a box with my name on it.”
Adjourning the case until sentencing at Warwick Crown Court, Judge Rochford said the offences had “clearly been a traumatic experience”.
In his closing speech to the jury on Monday, defence barrister Philip Brunt said Windsor had been diagnosed for the past 30 years with paranoid schizophrenia and had included his name and address in the correspondence.
Windsor, who has used multiple names including Peter Szymanski and changed his surname to its current form by deed poll, had not followed anyone and was not told by anyone to stop sending letters, Mr Brunt added.
Reporting by PA
