The Crown star Claire Foy called police after an alleged stalker, who despatched offensive emails, repeatedly rang her doorbell, a court docket has heard.
Foy, 37, who performed the younger British queen within the first two collection of the hit Netflix present, was allegedly targetted by Jason Penrose, 38, in November and December final yr.
He is claimed to have despatched the British actor’s publicist, Emma Jackson, specific emails, writing about “wanting her to be his girlfriend”, in response to court docket papers.
In one, on Nov 2, he allegedly stated: “I’m sorry I believe Claire[‘s] policy should be not talking about any personal stuff in media and only creative business.”
Jackson forwarded the emails to Foy’s agent, who had additionally obtained messages however had blocked the account.
On Dec 17 final yr, Foy “called the police to report that Jason Penrose was exterior her residence ringing on her doorbell continuously”, the papers say.
Foy, who has gained a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, starred in Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller Unsane, and performed Neil Armstrong’s spouse Janet Shearon within the biopic of the astronaut, First Man.
Kiera Oluwunmi was at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court in London on Monday (Feb 7) on behalf of the Metropolitan Police, to use for an interim stalking safety order (SPO) towards Penrose.
Police can apply on the magistrates’ court docket for a civil SPO to dam alleged stalkers from contacting or approaching their alleged victims whereas a legal investigation into their behaviour continues.
Chairman of the bench Amanda Gibbon granted a short lived SPO, with circumstances stopping Penrose from contacting Foy or Jackson, in addition to him attending their houses, workplaces or anyplace they fairly anticipate they might be.
Any breach of the order, which can stay in place till a listening to for a full order on June 30, may be prosecuted as a legal offence.
Gibbon stated: “Bearing in thoughts the consequences on the victims on this case and the extent to which the exercise escalated, from a collection of emails with significantly specific content material to a private go to and staying within the space the place one of many victims lives, and the impact this has had on the victims and their life-style, we take into account it’s applicable to make the order.”
The court docket heard Penrose, whose deal with on court docket recordsdata is a lodge in Paddington, west London, had been sectioned and was not anticipated to attend.
He later arrived and the phrases of the order had been defined to him exterior court docket. – dpa
