Unwanted cards, red roses and trips to her holiday rental cottage: Inside Fern Britton's two-year stalking ordeal which left TV star suffering sleepless nights and worrying for her personal safety By Josh White Published: 05:17 EDT, 19 June 2024 | Updated: 05:25 EDT, 19 June 2024 e-mail View comments Inadvertently renting your holiday home to the man who is stalking you could be a plot from a Hollywood horror film. When police burst into the property, they find the obsessive has fled, but a stool sitting beneath a skylight in the loft seems to show he was there to hole up and spy on his target's house next door. Far from a fiction writer's fantasy, this is the chilling scene that met This Morning star Fern Britton and the police officers tasked with protecting her in the quaint Cornwall town where she settled in 2020.
On Tuesday, the full details of Miss Britton's ordeal at the hands of fixated fan James Haviland, 63, resulted in a judge banning him from the entire county for a decade. Haviland pleaded guilty to stalking the former This Morning presenter James Haviland, 63, arrives at Basingstoke Magistrates Court in Hampshire He was handed a a ten-year restraining order At Basingstoke Magistrates Court, prosecutors described how Haviland's campaign of stalking began in November 2021 by sending Miss Britton 'unwanted flowers' and cards but escalated across two years, leading the TV star to fear what his 'end game' was. Haviland had first sent a bunch of red roses - named 'Lov.
