Stalker who bombarded BBC presenter with letters from prison sentenced for attempting to breach restraining order
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn obsessive stalker who bombarded BBC presenter Emily Maitlis with letters has been jailed for a further nine months after he tried to write to his victim's mum from prison.
Edward Vines, 52, told a court he would now stop writing to the former Newsnight presenter following a 27-year 'fixation' which saw him sentenced to eight years in prison last September.
He was locked up for writing a series of letters from behind bars declaring his love for her during his stay at HMP Nottingham after previously being jailed for harassing her.
In one of his letters to the journalist, he told her he would “continue to brood and to write letters in prison”, unless she spoke to him about “her behaviour” while they were at Cambridge University together in 1990. READ MORE: Woman who claimed to be grooming gang victim jailed for making false rape accusations A court heard while awaiting sentencing for breaching his restraining order 20 times, Vines also tried to write to Ms Maitlis' mum Marian between July and August last year.
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