A Daily Mail journalist who interviewed Fiona Harvey AKA the real-life Martha Scott from Baby Reindeer has revealed that he is now being stalked by the Scot, having received non-stop calls and text ever since he interviewed her 4 days ago.
Neil Sears is now basically living his own real-life Baby Reindeer nightmare – although I don’t think she fancies him much:
The most recent voicemail message was the most chilling. ‘You have made a bitter enemy of me,’ she said. ‘You are the c*** from hell.’
Those words, delivered in her distinctive Scottish accent, gave me a glimpse of how she had – allegedly – terrified her victims.
Neil Sears has put his experiences in an article which is behind a paywall on MailOnline, but I’ll share some of it below (hope he doesn’t mind):
On social media, she went on to denounce me as a fat liar, an ‘overgrown bipolar schoolboy’ and said she was considering charging £3,000 an hour for the time she spent talking to me, which she claimed was her professional due.
But in 30 years of journalism – including the occasion when comedian-turned-conspiracy theorist Russell Brand took offence at what I’d written about him and turned his eight million fans on me – I have never encountered such a tsunami of calls.
Within ten minutes of my departure. That’s when the calls had begun. She called three times during my short drive home, all of which I answered and which lasted in total 19 minutes.
The next day there were ten calls, the one after that 14, and the day afterwards 24 – all of them from a No Caller ID number on screen.
And when I failed to answer – as, I have to admit I began to do as that ‘No Caller ID’ message kept popping up – there were the rambling stream-of-consciousness messages – just like the ones the fictional Martha leaves in the TV show.
The most abusive message came after she had belatedly read the story published in the Mail that I had worked on with feature writer Barbara Davies.
I will call the police if you ever approach me,’ she said. ‘I am suing you and that newspaper, and the bimbo who wrote the article with you.
‘I hope that’s clear even to a moron like you, and I will be demanding the newspaper sack you. I don’t like you, I’ve never liked you.’
Then came the abuse unleashed on her Facebook page – looked at by ever-growing thousands of Baby Reindeer fans.
She told them I was ‘fat and ugly’, ‘not very bright’, a ‘nutter’, ‘sick’, ‘a total c***’ who ‘wouldn’t get off my phone’, and falsely claimed that I had abused other journalists and ‘hated’ Gadd.
The multiple postings went on well into the night, and over several days.
The article ends ominously…
Even as I type this article, approaching midnight, the repeated ‘No Caller ID’ calls are beginning again…
Yikes. You might be wondering why anyone would give a known stalker their number in the first place, but it actually makes perfect sense in this case:
“I gave her my number because it is perfectly understandable that an interviewee would wish to contact the journalist who would be telling her story to the world, perhaps with additional thoughts and observations or to correct some facts.
Still, it does seem a bit like handing your house keys over to a burglar – you’re basically guaranteeing that you will be burgled. Although being stalked by the most talked-about stalker in the world isn’t necessarily a bad thing for Neil Sears. Quite the opposite. Not only does he get to write an original article on Fiona Harvey, he’s now the star of the article too! A dream come true for any Daily Mail journalist.
For a look at Fiona Harvey’s interview with the Daily Record, click HERE. Big things on the horizon for her, apparently.
