Jeremy Vine helps fellow victims tormented by ex BBC Radio DJ Alex Belfield who was branded the ‘Jimmy Savile of trolling’ and drove man to brink of suicide
- Belfield was jailed for more than five years for stalking four men with links to BBC
- Read: BBC Radio DJ Alex Belfield must pay Jeremy Vine ‘substantial’ damages
Jeremy Vine has been helping fellow victims tormented by ex BBC Radio DJ Alex Belfield whose harassment drove a man to the brink of suicide.
41-year-old Phil Dehany was another victim of Belfield’s stalking and even wanted to end his own life during the ordeal.
Belfield was jailed for more than five years last September for stalking Dehany, Vine and two other men with links to the BBC from 2012 to 2021.
Vine has launched a civil case against the harasser and received substantial damages and an apology for the lies and abuse he endured, according to the Mirror.
Dehany, who has started crowdfunding to help with legal costs, told the newspaper: ‘Jeremy has been brilliant. We’ve got a WhatsApp group and he reaches out to make sure everybody’s okay. He even took us out for dinner.’
Jeremy Vine, 58, (pictured) was the target of a flood of horrific emails and social media posts from DJ Alex Belfield who Vine labelled as the ‘Jimmy Savile of trolling’
Alex Belfield (pictured) was jailed for more than five years for stalking Vine, Phil Dehany and two other men with links to the BBC from 2012 to 2021
Speaking out about the abuse for the first time, Dehany said he was forced to reveal his HIV+ status after Belfield suggested his ‘lifelong condition’ in a YouTube video right before he went to jail.
‘I’m suing him for harassment and I want a public apology,’ said Dehany. His supporter Vine tweeted that Dehany needs help to get his case heard.
43-year-old Behany executed a stalking campaign that lasted nine years against four men after his BBC contract was not renewed in 2011.
In YouTube videos he called Dehany a ‘low life scumbag’ and ‘morally corrupt’, bragging in one clip: ‘I made him suicidal and he blubs like a big girl’s blouse.’
During the pandemic, when Dehany stayed at his parents’ house in Middleton, Cumbria, the abuse from Belfield continued.
Stalker Belfield pictured taking a selfie outside Nottingham Crown Court before a court appearance
‘We recorded his vicious accusations that I was mentally unstable – I’m not – and gay which my parents knew about,’ said Dehany.
‘I wanted to end my life.’
Vine broke down in tears during the Nottingham crown court trial when facing his stalker, branding him the ‘Jimmy Savile of trolling’.
Gervase de Wilde, for Mr Vine, said Belfield had made ‘entirely false’ allegations in nine YouTube videos and eight tweets put online between May and August 2020.
This included the false claim that Mr Vine was ‘seriously and demonstrably dishonest’ because he had ‘publicly and repeatedly lied’ about his knowledge of the circumstances in which the BBC gave him £1,000 for a memorial event for radio executive John Myers.
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